Tag Archives: Java

February 27, 2013 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Apprenda Shifts the Game on Polyglot Vs Best of Breed PaaS

By Ben Kepes

One of the biggest battles raging in the PaaS world has been between the Polyglot and the Best of Breed camps. In the polyglot corner stands Heroku, Engine Yard and Cloud Foundry who all say that only a platform that gives an organization the ability to develop in multiple different

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August 13, 2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

TechCrunch Wrote a Post, Oracle got Pissy. Sigh

By Ben Kepes

So Alex Williams (a great guy, good friend and awesome cloud pundit) wrote a post a week or two ago entitled “Why The Open Cloud Wins And Oracle Loses When IT Gets Virtualized.” (subtle huh?) Oracle wasn’t overly happy at Alex’s comments and counter posted saying that “TechCrunch is Clueless

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August 10, 2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Temboo Eases App Development–API Shortcuts

By Ben Kepes

The life of developers is arguably more exciting than ever before – with so many different services only an API call, it is possible for developers to deliver upon what were only dreams a few short years ago. But all of those services, and all of those hundreds of APIs

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November 8, 2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Stackato gets Management and Monitoring for Private PaaS

By Ben Kepes

I’ve been really positive about Cloud Foundry, seeing it as doing the sort of things for PaaS that OpenStack does for IaaS. If Cloud Foundry succeeds in its aim, Organizations will have a PaaS solution that they can use where they want, with whichever cloud provider they want and with

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October 27, 2011 Posted in Business 3 Comments

OpenLogic Announces General Availability of CloudSwing PaaS

By Ben Kepes

The other day Krish bemoaned the fact that PaaS is rapidly becoming homogenized as all players rapidly follow their competitors in rolling out features and languages. As Krish said; …[they] talk about differentiation in terms of user experience. But, ladies and gentlemen, I hear the same from every other PaaS

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September 28, 2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

JRuby for Engine Yard Goes GA

By Ben Kepes

In another step towards PaaS provider Engine Yard becoming a fully featured multi language platform player, they are today announcing that JRuby on Engine Yard is entering general availability. Timed to coincide with next week’s JavaOne conferent, JRuby is a Java implementation of the Ruby language that Engine Yard initially

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September 13, 2011 Posted in Business 4 Comments

GigaSpaces Brings Java to Azure

By Ben Kepes

The last few months have seen a mass move from PaaS players to move from single language/framework to support to being all things to all peopple. From PHPFog renaming itself AppFog and adding new languages, to Heroku rolling out Java to CloudFoundry going Node.js, multi language is the way of

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July 28, 2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

NoSQL Search with Cloudant

By Ben Kepes

In the seemingly endless argument between the relational database proponents and those on the NoSQL side of the divide, the usual vectors of discussion occur around speed, availability, operational constrains and budget. One area that sometimes gets forgotten is the loss of a structured query language that followers of the

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April 7, 2011 Posted in Business 7 Comments

Engine Yard Goes Free(ish) and Talks Post Heroku Deal

By Ben Kepes

Engine Yard is a Ruby PaaS offering that, ever since the Decemebr acquisition by salesforce.com of another PaaS Heroku, has been held up as the last-man-standing (at least when it comes to independent Ruby based PaaS providers). They recently introduced a free trial (as distinct from a freemium) strategy that

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