Page 5 - Cloud Foundry Foundation News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

/PRNewswire/ -- Cloud Foundry Foundation today announced that Craig McLuckie, vice president of research and development, VMware, has been named chairman of...

/PRNewswire/ -- Cloud Foundry Foundation today announced that Craig McLuckie, vice president of research and development, VMware, has been named chairman of...

Over the course of the last decade or so, open source changed dramatically. What was once mostly a philosophical discussion about cathedrals, bazaars and the evils of Microsoft — which in turn lead to the people building compilers and the likes of the Linux kernel — became the de facto standard for how even traditional […]

Assessing PaaS: a simpler way to build software applications An opinionated application development platform typically trades flexibility and complexity for convenience and speed of delivery, so developers can focus on their code. Here we define PaaS and lay out its strengths and weaknesses. Credit: Dreamstime Platform as a service (PaaS) is an enabler for software development where a third-party service provider delivers a platform to customers so they can develop, run, and manage software applications without the need to build and maintain the underlying infrastructure themsel...

Thinkstock Platform as a service (PaaS) is an enabler for software development where a third-party service provider delivers a platform to customers so they can develop, run, and manage software applications without the need to build and maintain the underlying infrastructure themselves. Most platforms as a service include templates or build packs, which provide an opinion as to how certain types of applications should be built, typically around the popular 12-factor methodology. This is why PaaS options are often labeled “opinionated” and are best suited for new, greenfie...