Year-old PHP PaaS hoster AppFog, née PHP Fog, has gotten an $8 million B
round led by Ignition Partners with participation from new investors Simon
Crosby, Citrix' former data center and virtualization CTO, and VC Matt Ocko
as well as existing investors, Madrona Venture Group, First Round Capital and
Founders Co-Op.
That makes $9.8 million altogether.
Ignition gets a board seat and Ignition managing director Frank Artale will
fill it.
The money's earmarked for integrating broader technologies - it wants to
support Node, Ruby, Python, Java and .NET - which explains why it's changed
its name - and adding to the development team working on AppFog, the
technology that powers PHP Fog.
Industry analysts have told the start-up and its backers that
Platform-as-a-Service is beginning to eclipse bare-bones
Infrastructure-as-Service (IaaS) and should be in for "big growth,"... (more)
Coach Wei's Blog
Here is a question that I have been pondering on and off for quite a while:
Why do "cool kids" choose Ruby or PHP to build websites instead of Java?
I have to admit that I do not have an answer.
Why do I even care? Because I am a Java developer. Like many Java developers,
I get along with Java well. Not only the language itself, but the development
environments (Eclipse for example), step-by-step debugging helper, wide
availability of libraries and code snippets, and the readily accessible
information on almost any technical question I may have on Java via Google. ... (more)
Netbiscuits, a provider of cloud software service for cross-platform mobile
sites and apps, on Wednesday announced that it will offer retailers PayPal
Mobile Express Checkout, the online payment service's two-click mobile
payment system for the mobile Web.
PayPal's Mobile Express Checkout service will now be available to
Netbiscuits-powered retailers worldwide. Furthermore, the two companies
agreed to build a relationship providing enterprise-class mobile shopping and
payment solutions to customers in e-commerce and retail in North America and
Europe.
Netbiscuits provides a hig... (more)
Charles River Media announced Using Open Source Web Software with Windows, a
comprehensive guide that teaches how open source software can be used
effectively on a Windows system. According to the book's publisher "Open
source is changing the software market because of its advantages over
commercial tools including cost savings, greater reliability, security,
improved performance, and scalability. Although open source is primarily
associated with Linux, many people, including IT professionals, don’t
realize that open source programs can work on a standard Windows
platform... (more)
"Companies have invested a significant amount of money in SOA – and
continue to do so," says Jeff Haynie, Co-Founder & CEO of Appcelerator, in
this exclusive Q&A with SYS-CON's AJAX & RIA Journal in the run-up to
Appcelerator's session on October 20 at AJAX World RIA Conference & Expo in
San Jose, California (October 20-22, 2008). "One of the keys to unlocking the
full return on investment in SOA is the ability to build service-oriented UIs
(SOUIs) – clients designed to consume services, regardless of language or
platform," Haynie continues. "We believe Appcelerator's approach tr... (more)
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