CloudFoundry

Last week, VMware announced their CloudFoundry Platform as a service product to rave reviews.

For recap, Cloud Foundry, a VMware-led project 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.

Why is this a good thing?
One word...OPEN.

• Open PaaS
• Use it public, private and cross infrastructure
• No lock in
  

Platform as a Service that gives users the ability to migrate, that lets them use their code wherever they like is amazing.
Cloud Developers are cautiously optimistic at this point because Developers can deploy their applications using their existing tools and with zero modification to their code.

Let the attempted commodization begin!