Salesforce’s acquisition of pioneering PaaS platform Heroku raises many new questions in the SaaS industry. Is the acquisition for the cloud platform technology or the large developer base? Will Salesforce now push harder to be the core platform of choice for enterprise developers in the cloud? Is this a new strategic direction for the SaaS…
In today’s cloud computing services market, the biggest and the best providers are slugging it out for higher market share and revenue. Being a utility service, the service quality is what matters In this two part series, we would check out the two of the biggest names in cloud computing arena, the established leader and…
MongoLab, a cloud-based database provider created by San Francisco-based ObjectLabs, announced today that it has closed a $3 million series A funding round led by GRP Partners, Freestyle Capital, Foundry Group, Baseline Ventures, David Cohen, and others. The list of investors is impressive, considering that it includes several names involved in the funding of other…
Earlier today, Salesforce.com announced it will buy Heroku, which develops and deploys web-based applications that rely on the programming language Ruby on Rails, for $212 million as part of its Cloud 2 suite of cloud applications. Benioff said Salesforce had made the purchase to open up its platform. “Ruby is the language of Cloud 2,”…