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"To top that off, Salesforce just bought Heroku, telling the world that they really intend to compete in cloud hosting against Amazon" I don't think so, not di
by jeremyjarvis 16y ago
"To top that off, Salesforce just bought Heroku, telling the world that they really intend to compete in cloud hosting against Amazon"
I don't think so, not directly anyway. Heroku is platform-as-a-service (applications), Amazon is infrastructure.
- geekinthecorner 16y agoWe can quibble on how you use it, but in the end, the goal is to own as much of the application hosting market as they possibly can. At least, if the cloud pundits are right, and if there can be only 2 or 3 utility computing companies in the end.
- sedachv 16y agoAnd what do you think runs on top of that infrastructure?