Founder of PHP Joins Jelastic PaaS Cloud Hosting Provider
July 2, 2013
Grazed from The Var Guy. Author: Christopher Tozzi.
Jelastic is building what it says is "the next generation Java and PHP cloud hosting platform." Now, it has enlisted the father of PHP himself to help in that endeavor. On Monday, the platform-as-a-service (PaaS) provider announced that Rasmus Lerdorf has signed on as an "Advisor" to provide technical expertise for PHP cloud hosting.
It’s hard not to compare Lerdorf to Linus Torvalds, the founder of the Linux kernel. They’re both Scandinavian natives—Torvalds is a Swedish-speaking Finn and Lerdorf a native of Greenland, which makes him Danish (tangential thought: Denmark controls a huge portion of North America, yet no one seems to realize it, except maybe the Danes)—who developed open source software that has played a central role in defining computing as we know it. Like Linux, PHP, which Lerdforf introduced in 1994, powers millions of websites around the world. It remains one of the most popular server-side scripting languages today, despite competition from newer alternatives…
Starting this week, Lerdorf, who currently works full-time as an engineer at Etsy, will be offering his expertise to Jelastic. His official title there is Advisor and the exact nature of the contributions he will make appears to be flexible…
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