Thanks James, That would be really helpful. If you haven't sent the email already. I would be really interested to know if they could support Gemstone. That, combined with fuel+tanker could make a fantastic dev environment. Cheers Andy On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 4:13 PM, <pharo-users-request@lists.gforge.inria.fr>wrote:

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:

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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