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I don't get it, but also never used VM's for anything. Can you not launch a Linux or Windows instance as VM in VMWare? These platforms have multi language suppo
by erikb 15y ago
I don't get it, but also never used VM's for anything. Can you not launch a Linux or Windows instance as VM in VMWare? These platforms have multi language support. So what exactly is the story about AppFog? (Really don't understand the situation)
- jinushaun 15y agoCloud Foundry is more like Heroku than Amazon's EC2. Sure, I can go onto EC2, fire up a new instance of Ubuntu, install Ruby on Rails, web servers, proxy servers, database servers, etc and manually manage everything myself, but that's a lot of work and a bunch of people have already solved that problem. The solutions are implemented in a way that hides all the complex "web-scale" details underneath so you as the developer only needs to focus on your code. Cloud Foundry is an open source version of that solution. AppFog ditched their proprietary solution and decided to use Cloud Foundry's codebase instead.