"the industry’s first open platform as a service".
First? How is this different from Heroku and other such folks?
First? How is this different from Heroku and other such folks?
That said, I think its a bit surprising that VMWare is launching this under their branding - the machinations of large corporations continuously confound me.
"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.
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.
Agreed...the open aspect of it and how it morphs through the community will be very interesting. Looking forward to it.
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...