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Leaves me wondering if Heroku is to Engine Yard as Mint was to Wesabe. Good people, poor strategic decisions.
by jot 16y ago
Leaves me wondering if Heroku is to Engine Yard as Mint was to Wesabe. Good people, poor strategic decisions.
- dasil003 16y agoWhy does it leave you wondering that? Because the barometer of success is an early exit? Engine Yard and Heroku are two different companies with very different products, both offer fully managed hosting, but the similarities end there. Heroku is optimized for ease-of-use, automation, and keeping support costs low by enforcing a completely blackbox architecture. Engine Yard is optimized for flexibility. In addition to AppCloud on EC2, they have XCloud which provides PCI compliance, networked data shares, and other things certain applications might need. If Heroku meets your needs it might be better, but Engine Yard covers a much wider set of needs. I expect both companies are quite profitable. I'm not seeing any strategic errors on either side.