Just a side-note: according to Wikipedia article [1] there are already some commercial PaaS providers based on CloudFork: - Uhuru Software, Inc. is one company that has created a AppCloud using Cloud Foundry. Uhuru's PaaS provides support for multiple frameworks (.NET, Rails, and Spring) and languages (Java, Ruby, PHP, and C#). - AppFog hosts their PaaS on Amazon Web Services, OpenStack and Windows Azure.[1] [2] - ActiveState is a company that has created a commercial distribution of the Cloud Foundry software for enterprises to host their own private PaaS. Their product has support for additional languages and frameworks, an adds a dashboard and security protocols.[3] - Tier 3 is a company that has created an Enterprise-oriented PaaS combining Cloud Foundry with their Iron Foundry OSS Project that provides .NET and SQL Server Support. About commercial cloudfoundry.com: As of September 2012, this service is still in beta and pricing is not yet determined. So, question is, what are long-term VMware plans with CloudFoundry, and in this light, maybe supporting another provider like proposed OpenShift is not a bad idea, for many reasons: - more experience will be gained running on the another cloud - more general PhaaS, which can run on more than one cloud - more independent of cloud providers Best regards Janko [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_Foundry Dne 27. 01. 2013 12:51, piše Andy Burnett:
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I built CloudFoundry so that you uploaded a .st file (in my ESUG example it was 'aida.st') that was used to build the image. The server executed the .st file and saved the resulting image (it could load .mcz files directly or execute a Metacello script). Whenever your application was needed, a copy of the saved image was used.
James Foster
James, can I check a few assumptions - I want to make sure I am not putting words in VMWare's mouth, or missing an opportunity.
1. Is it the case that CloudFoundry.com has no current plans to offer gemstone as a hosted option?
2. Your work on getting Aida to run was targeted at the cloudfoundry.org, And therefore it would require someone to set up a separate hosting operation - using the cloudfoundry code - in order for us to use your work?
If 1 and 2 are true, is there anyway that we can use the .com side in pursuit of this PhaaS objective? I assume not, but I would hate to miss the simple fix :-)
Cheers Andy
-- Janko Mivšek Aida/Web Smalltalk Web Application Server http://www.aidaweb.si