Comments on: News Analysis: Salesforce.com Buys Heroku For $212M – Shows Commitment To Next Gen Apps

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By: Clive Boulton

Clive Boulton — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 11:04:27 +0000

My opinion. Heroku has become more associated with the lite social gamification app deployments than the open source community. Heroku is default deployment at RubyBoot camps / Startup Weekends / Woman 2.0 events.

I would imagine SalesForce will mint money out of Heroku. Once a Heroku app gets hit by traffic. Your credit card is correspondingly hit by charges.

By: R "Ray" Wang

R "Ray" Wang — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 16:44:20 +0000

Bill – appreciate your input. – Ray

By: Bill Lennon

Bill Lennon — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 20:05:51 +0000

Thanks for insightful notes on dreamforce and salesforce new cloud strategy.

By: Stuart Lynn

Stuart Lynn — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 19:39:06 +0000

I’d like to think so Ray but I’m not so sure…

In my experience open source communities have emerged almost in a ‘rage against the machine’ way when faced with the lock in and slow down in technology advances that occur when vendors attempt to lock down and commercialise technology.

Some developers will have a look and try, just as they are doing with Azure and Amazon, so SF wont have it all their own way… At the end of the day competition is good for the industry and only time will tell who wins.

Regards, Stuart

By: R "Ray" Wang

R "Ray" Wang — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 18:20:31 +0000

Stuart – great question. I think Open Source communities and vendors such as SFDC can work hand in hand. In the new model of work, you can expect a good deal of give and take. The challenge w/ open source has always been a need for balancing greater governance w/ an open model. I hope SFDC can pave the way to show that both can co-exist. What do you think? – Ray

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Wed, 08 Dec 2010 17:56:57 +0000

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By: Stuart Lynn

Stuart Lynn — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 16:21:00 +0000

Hi Ray, Interesting times… a serious play by SF to position themselves as a cloud vendor (as opposed to a cloud app vendor) and to take on the likes of Azure and Amazon in the PaaS space… However, what impact do you think this acquisition will have on the open source community?