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Considering PaaS

Considering PaaS

By Michael Coté on January 19, 2011

If there’s ready cash at hand, lock-in and “proprietary” is demoted in favor of a quick buck; if the developers are building a general application with a longer time between compile and cash, an open, standard platform is more attractive.

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Azure, Cloud, CloudBees, Development Tools, enterprise software, heroku, joyent, PaaS, salesforce, vmforce, VMware

Salesforce acquires Heroku: Dork Move, guys.

Salesforce acquires Heroku: Dork Move, guys.

By James Governor on December 8, 2010

I came into the office this morning to see a tweet that stopped me in my tracks. Salesforce.com is acquiring Heroku for $212m. In cash! Beyond the obvious bubbliciousness of the deal was a cold hard truth about the once and future kingmakers – developers. You see I didn’t first hear about Heroku from a […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Amazon Web Services, developers, heroku, joyent, node.js, Parker Harris, Rails, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, salesforce.com | 2 Responses

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