Cloud Foundry is turning into an open source platform that’s worth watching

Grazed from NetworkWorld. Author: Brandon Butler.

It’s hard to tell when a new technology reaches a critical mass that it’s really worth taking a look at and paying attention to. It still may be a little bit early for Cloud Foundry, but all the signs are pointing toward this open source application development platform being one that could impact the cloud computing industry.

Today Cloud Foundry announced some more big-name backers to its open source platform as a service (PaaS). Accenture, BNY Mellon, Capgemini, GE, Ericsson, Intel, NTT and Verizon jumped on board. They already have ActiveState, and CenturyLink, and the Platinum level members including EMC, HP, IBM, Pivotal, Rackspace, SAP and VMware as supporters. That’s an impressive list of corporate partners…

Everyone knows technology adoption is about more than just who a company can trot out as partners. At the end of the day it comes down to who will actually implement this technology. And for that aspect of Cloud Foundry, it is still early days. For those not aware, Cloud Foundry is both a product and a platform. Created by a team at VMware, the project then was one of the original pillars of Pivotal, a spin-out from VMware and EMC…

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