Cloud Foundry brings CenturyLink aboard to open up PaaS process
August 8, 2013
Grazed from GigaOM. Author: Barb Darrow.
Last week it was IBM. Now CenturyLink has joined the community advisory board that will, in theory, help Cloud Foundry establish itself as a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) that enterprises will use. cloudfoundrylogoThat’s no mean feat. Developers often love PaaSes, which give them an easy environment to build their applications, but big companies often balk at deploying those applications on a third-party platform and bring them in house.
Pivotal, the spin-off partially owned by EMC and VMware, is backing this Cloud Foundry play big time but apparently realizes it needs strong third-party support — including from cloud competitors — to avoid the perception that any one company is big-footing the process…
In the past even some Cloud Foundry proponents felt that decisions about its direction were too closed off from public scrutiny. Some called it a “black box.” Frustrated with a lack of visibility, some even talked privately about “forking” the Cloud Foundry code — in effect, taking their version code and going home…
Read more from the source @ http://gigaom.com/2013/08/08/cloud-foundry-opens-up-paas-process-as-centurylink-joins-advisory-board/