Last updated : Mar 16, 2012
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Mar 2012
Trial
Worth pursuing. It is important to understand how to build up this capability. Enterprises should try this technology on a project that can handle the risk.
Heroku is a beautifully simple Platform as a Service (PaaS). Although Heroku began as a Ruby on Rails platform, it is evolving to support a variety of languages and web frameworks, most recently Clojure. Heroku uses a standard stack and deploys applications with a simple Git push. Heroku’s recent acquisition by Salesforce.com has not diminished its service quality.
Jul 2011
Trial
Worth pursuing. It is important to understand how to build up this capability. Enterprises should try this technology on a project that can handle the risk.
Jan 2011
Trial
Worth pursuing. It is important to understand how to build up this capability. Enterprises should try this technology on a project that can handle the risk.
Heroku is a beautifully simple Platform as a Service (PaaS) for Rack-compatible frameworks such as Ruby on Rails. In contrast to similar offerings for other languages, which often limit development to a programming model specific to the service platform, Heroku uses the standard Rails stack and even allows deployment with a plain Git push. Heroku was recently acquired by Salesforce.com and so has significant backing behind their service.
Published : Jan 31, 2011
