Ernest de Leon was pleasantly surprised with the newly announced Cloud Foundry from VMware. Cloud Foundry is “a VMware-led project [that] is the world’s first open Platform as a Service (PaaS) offering. Cloud Foundry provides a platform for building, deploying, and running cloud apps using Spring for Java developers, Rails and Sinatra for Ruby developers, Node.js and other JVM frameworks including Grails.”
de Leon found several compelling reasons to take a deep look at this offering.
- It is open source.
- It spans public, private and hybrid cloud computing.
- There will be a ‘micro cloud’ version coming out that allows developers to test on their own desktops and laptops.
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