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"the industry’s first open platform as a service". First? How is this different from Heroku and other such folks?

• ctide 16y ago
  The stack is open source: http://cloudfoundry.org/ http://cloudfoundry.org/
  • mcantelon 16y ago
    Impressive! Now their string of open source acquisitions makes sense.
• thesethings 16y ago
  It also supports multiple frameworks/languages.
  • jasonmccay 16y ago
    Technically, so does Heroku. CloudFoundry does offer Java support, which is a bit different. I am interested to see how it looks once it gets out of beta. I am betting it will be a solid platform, but after seeing the demo a few months ago at RubyConf, it did feel like a model I had seen before.
    • mrkurt 16y ago
      As someone who would like to give Heroku a bit of a twisting sometimes, I'm all for it (even if that's all it is). Having a company like VMware offer to run my Rack and Node apps side by side would be useful.
    • ezmobius 16y ago
      When was the last time Heroku accepted a pull request from you? ;)
      • jasonmccay 16y ago
        Hey there, Ezra! :) Agreed...the open aspect of it and how it morphs through the community will be very interesting. Looking forward to it.
      • jasonmccay 16y ago
        As a follow up, my initial response came out a bit more snarky than I intended. Sorry about that.
        • ezmobius 16y ago
          No worries and I am good friends with the Heroku guys and I fully give them props for lots of the pioneering ideas in this space. This project means to take it further though and be one everyone's cloud operating system, the Linux of cloud OS's if you will. It will live or die based on the open source can build around it. I fully intend to try to build this community and nurture it so this project flourishes. The personal PaaS angle is what I'm most excited about. Whatch for my technical blog posts tomorrow after I get some rest for more info...
• incomethax 16y ago
  It doesn't seem like its different people from Heroku. If you've seen Mark Benioff's cloudforce pitch (link below), he mentions that they're partnering with VMWare to launch a PaaS similar to Heroku (which they acquired in December). That said, I think its a bit surprising that VMWare is launching this under their branding - the machinations of large corporations continuously confound me. http://www.salesforce.com/video/cloud2011-nyc.jsp http://www.salesforce.com/video/cloud2011-nyc.jsp
  • justincormack 16y ago
    according to the register: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/04/12/vmware_open_sources_platform_as_service_code/ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/04/12/vmware_open_sources_... "Cloud Foundry serves as the basis for the VMforce platform cloud VMware is building in tandem with Salesforce.com. Therefore, Chen tells us, developers will be able to readily move applications between VMforce and other Cloud Foundry services" So they are both apparently releasing differently branded versions of the same stack. There is no history in the git repos, so not clear if any of the code comes from Heroku.
    • ezmobius 16y ago
      None of the code comes from Heroku at all.
• nlake44 16y ago
  I'm on the AppScale team (http://appscale.cs.ucsb.edu http://appscale.cs.ucsb.edu) and it's been open source for several years now.