Comments on: SalesForce to Buy Heroku’s Ruby Cloud for $212M

By: DotCloud’s PaaS for the Masses Gets it $800K: Cloud Computing News «

DotCloud’s PaaS for the Masses Gets it $800K: Cloud Computing News « — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 16:05:52 +0000

[...] various layers of the application stack. Heroku, which focuses on Ruby, raised $13 million before Salesforce.com bought it for $212 million, so the sky might be the limit for DotCloud if it really can match PaaS levels of automation with [...]

By: Are Big Data Startups Eyeing the Enterprise Already?: Cloud Computing News «

Thu, 17 Feb 2011 18:41:19 +0000

[...] on at Heroku and former MySQL CEO Marten Mickos took the helm at Eucalyptus Systems. Heroku just sold to Salesforce.com for a staggering $212 million, and, despite speculation that it will be buried by OpenStack, Eucalyptus has raised boatloads of [...]

By: Cloud-savvy Ignition Gets Stronger with Franke Artale: Cloud Computing News «

Mon, 07 Feb 2011 20:10:47 +0000

[...] of Frank Artale as managing director. Notable recent successes for Ignition include Heroku, which Salesforce.com acquired for $212 million in November, and Splunk, an IT intelligence company that’s planning an IPO next year. Other notable cloud [...]

By: Big Data, ARM and Legal Concerns on the Rise in Q4: Cloud Computing News «

Big Data, ARM and Legal Concerns on the Rise in Q4: Cloud Computing News « — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 17:15:26 +0000

[...] just infrastructure as a service’s (IaaS) younger, cooler brother. The acquisitions of Makara and Heroku by Red Hat and Salesforce.com, respectively, as well as VMware’s hosted PaaS project, illustrate [...]

By: Meet Elastic Beanstalk, Amazon’s Platform Play: Cloud Computing News «

Wed, 19 Jan 2011 08:01:59 +0000

[...] it to Salesforce and VMware, while smaller providers of Platforms as a Service such as Makara and Heroku were snapped up (by Red Hat and Salesforce [...]

By: Linux Money Technoliges - Open Source Trends to Watch in 2011

Linux Money Technoliges - Open Source Trends to Watch in 2011 — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 05:29:25 +0000

[...] popularity among developers has been steadily growing over the last couple of years, as the recent purchase of Ruby application Platform-as-a-service Heroku by Salesforce.com suggests, it’s [...]

By: PHP Fog Raises $1.8M, Looks Like Heroku of PHP: Cloud Computing News «

PHP Fog Raises $1.8M, Looks Like Heroku of PHP: Cloud Computing News « — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 17:30:53 +0000

[...] IaaS clouds that have broad language support. However, the fast growth of Ruby cloud Heroku and the acquisitions of both it and Makara demonstrate how popular PaaS is becoming, and, like Heroku, PHP Fog has a uniquely [...]

By: 8 Cloud Companies to Watch in 2011: Cloud Computing News «

8 Cloud Companies to Watch in 2011: Cloud Computing News « — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 02:17:37 +0000

[...] Salesforce to Buy Heroku’s Ruby Cloud for $212 Million [...]

By: Developer-focused Heroku wins big with SalesForce Acquisition « Lew's Blog

Developer-focused Heroku wins big with SalesForce Acquisition « Lew's Blog — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 01:15:32 +0000

[...] to our partner Heroku for building significant enterprise value so rapidly, but also to Marc Benioff and Salesforce for making a smart strategic move in grabbing a [...]

By: AWS Eyes Android, iOS Developers: Cloud «

AWS Eyes Android, iOS Developers: Cloud « — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 20:01:18 +0000

[...] evidence, we need look no further than yesterday’s big Salesforce.com-Heroku news. Heroku is hosting more than 100,000 applications on its platform, many of them mobile. In the [...]