VMware launches Node.js, Rails and Spring PaaS

With support for MySql, MongoDB, and Redis on the DB side :)

Link to github repos <a href="https://github.com/cloudfoundry" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/cloudfoundry</a>

What do they mean by "Spring applications"? That's quite obscure. Do they mean they handle .war J2EE applications? Or they only support Spring libraries?

No price given. I'll keep using AppEngine until someone at least comes close to matching their freemium model.

If you are in the bay area on the 13th the Cloud Foundry team is hosting its first meetup. Come ask the tough questions to engineering:<p><a href="http://www.meetup.com/cloudcomputing/events/17187485/" rel="nofollow">http://www.meetup.com/cloudcomputing/events/17187485/</a>

Very interesting. I'm glad more Heroku-like services are sprining up, specially with support for Node.js<p>This is a much needed service, and although some solutions already exist, they're far from perfect, and there's certainly lots of space for competition.

Well, to make the license question easier, their invite request form is utterly unusable on Android. I apparently need to 'scroll to the bottom' to submit to a dubiously enforceable license before even being allowed to see their beta, exciting action made anyway imposible by the broken design.<p>Node.js notwithstanding, this tastes from the start like a proper enterprise service.

I was suprised no virtualisation is included in the solution (or I did not find the parts in the github repos). Seriously, shared-hosting is so 1996 from a security perspective.<p>So for me It will be "just" an "internal cloud" solution and maybe replace capistrano. Still, puppet and chef will do the "physical"/"system" provisioning for my customers and my projects.

It definitely makes sense for VMware to build and open source this, since their core business is selling the virtualization software this runs on top of (I assume).<p>Though I wonder how much of it is really VMware specific, or if it would be relatively easy to port to Xen, etc.<p><i>Edit: actually it appears it might be agnostic to the virtualization layer.</i>

Was anybody else surprised that Ryan Dahl actually spoke at the CloudFoundry Webinar? Seems like a conflict with Joyents no.de hosting solution.

Any chance of getting Python/Django support in the near future?

"the industry’s first open platform as a service".<p>First? How is this different from Heroku and other such folks?

This seems fine for fun apps or testing, but I would be incredibly concerned to agree with these terms of service if I was running production software or charging for it.<p>From their terms of service:<p>b. Your Applications and Code. If You create online applications or program code using the Service, You authorize Cloud Foundry to host, copy, transmit, display and adapt such applications and program code, solely as necessary for Cloud Foundry to provide the Service in accordance with this Agreement. Subject to the above, Cloud Foundry acquires no right, title or interest from You or Your licensors under this Agreement in or to such applications or program code, including any intellectual property rights therein.<p>...and yet somehow you own exclusive rights to the data.