I will contact them and ask what it would take for them to support a new runtime/framework/database. I expect that the primary question will be business opportunity followed by support requirements.

James

On Jan 28, 2013, at 3:58 AM, Janko Miv?ek <janko.mivsek@eranova.si> wrote:

> What if we ask one of existing commercial PaaS providers to add
> Smalltalk among the languages of choice? This way we achieve one-click
> Smalltalk cloud apps the fastest way for sure.
>
> Right now I'm looking at AppFog http://www.appfog.com. This is
> CloudFoundry based PaaS provider over the Amazon, Rackspace and Azure
> IaaS providers. It supports also "unusual" languages like Erlang and Go
> [1], so maybe they are open for Smalltalk too.
>
> James, AppCloud is located in Portland, Gemstone as well, so you are
> neighbors :) Do you think it would be wise to make a contact with them
> to start discussing the possibilities?
>
> Best regards
> Janko