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By: CloudBees Gets $4M for Java PaaS Plans: Cloud «

CloudBees Gets $4M for Java PaaS Plans: Cloud « — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 17:52:34 +0000

[...] assure you, are not sitting idle on the PaaS front. Should Heroku expand beyond Ruby support, as has been suggested, Java PaaS competition will be even tighter. I suspect we’ll see the PaaS market start to really [...]

By: Can Heroku Become the Official Cloud of Facebook Apps?: Cloud «

Can Heroku Become the Official Cloud of Facebook Apps?: Cloud « — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 19:47:59 +0000

[...] said the number coming on board per week has doubled over the past few months. In April, Heroku was hosting 60,000 applications. Lindebaum estimates 25-30 percent of the apps fall under the umbrella of social [...]

By: Heroku: Serving Up 100,000 Apps: Cloud «

Heroku: Serving Up 100,000 Apps: Cloud « — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 16:08:45 +0000

[...] mobile opportunities, said Byron Sebastian, CEO of the two-year-old company whose investors include Redpoint Venture Partners and Ignition Partners. The growth in apps is also helping boost the company’s overall [...]

By: PaaS Is The Future Of The Cloud Services: Heroku Is Ready To Be There

PaaS Is The Future Of The Cloud Services: Heroku Is Ready To Be There — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 02:27:02 +0000

[...] Heroku Raises $10M for Its Ruby Platform (gigaom.com) [...]

By: Mobile App Boom Is Lifting Heroku’s Fortunes

Mobile App Boom Is Lifting Heroku’s Fortunes — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 18:52:20 +0000

[...] to Byron Sebastian, chief executive officer of the two-year-old company, which is backed by the likes of Redpoint Venture Partners and Ignition Partners. The biggest boost for Heroku is going to come when RhoMobile, an open mobile framework company, [...]

By: Who Will Build the LAMP Cloud?

Who Will Build the LAMP Cloud? — Sat, 22 May 2010 16:01:59 +0000

[...] surprisingly given how much the startup is identified with the Ruby community. As Stacey noted in a post about its recent $10 million investment announcement: “We don’t think the market is going to end up with a Ruby platform and a Java platform and a [...]

By: Google Tries to Offer a Grown-up Cloud

Google Tries to Offer a Grown-up Cloud — Wed, 19 May 2010 17:03:01 +0000

[...] could test it out. However, App Engine competes with services like Microsoft’s Azure, Heroku and the recently announced VMforce platform (GigaOM Pro, sub req’d) from VMware and [...]

By: Are the Stars Aligning for an Amazon PaaS Offering?

Are the Stars Aligning for an Amazon PaaS Offering? — Sun, 16 May 2010 14:01:10 +0000

[...] a couple weeks ago. Or the attention Heroku is attracting with its Ruby-centric service -– 60,000 applications and $15 million in VC investment are nothing to scoff at. Could Amazon be the next cloud player to enter this [...]

By: Coté's People Over Process » Numbers, Volume 46

Coté's People Over Process » Numbers, Volume 46 — Fri, 14 May 2010 23:06:04 +0000

[...] A Ruby PaaS Heroku is home to 60,000 Ruby applications and it’s used by developers of all sizes, including giants like US consumer electronics retailer Best Buy. The company claims 1,500 applications are being added to its cloud each week. [...]

By: PaaS Is The Future Of The Cloud Services: Heroku Is Ready To Be There | CloudAve

Wed, 12 May 2010 20:16:23 +0000

[...] Heroku Raises $10M for Its Ruby Platform (gigaom.com) [...]