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VMware CEO Paul Maritz – Cloud Foundry. Polyglot IT for Cloud computing. Forking is Good. VMware on Github

VMware CEO Paul Maritz – Cloud Foundry. Polyglot IT for Cloud computing. Forking is Good. VMware on Github

By James Governor on May 18, 2011

Tweet I have written before about Paul Maritz as the CEO of a major tech firm who agrees with RedMonk that Developers are the New Kingmakers. Well Paul came to London for an analyst briefing a couple of weeks ago, and there is more to report. The fact Maritz runs VMware, a hugely successful business […]

Posted in Business | Tagged cloudfoundry, developers, erlang, node.js, PaaS, PHP, Rails, sinatra, VMware

Salesforce acquires Heroku: Dork Move, guys.

Salesforce acquires Heroku: Dork Move, guys.

By James Governor on December 8, 2010

I came into the office this morning to see a tweet that stopped me in my tracks. Salesforce.com is acquiring Heroku for $212m. In cash! Beyond the obvious bubbliciousness of the deal was a cold hard truth about the once and future kingmakers – developers. You see I didn’t first hear about Heroku from a […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Amazon Web Services, developers, heroku, joyent, node.js, Parker Harris, Rails, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, salesforce.com | 2 Responses

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