Software AG buys LongJump for cloud PaaS
April 26, 2013
Grazed from PCWorld. Author: Chris Kanaracus.
Software AG has picked up cloud PaaS (platform-as-a-service) vendor LongJump in a bid to give small and medium-sized companies a way to rapidly develop applications with less involvement from IT. Terms of the deal, which was announced Thursday, were not disclosed.
LongJump’s platform gives users a set of models and templates for building applications, with no need to code, according to Software AG’s announcement. Applications can be deployed on public and private cloud services, as well as on premises and through mobile devices…
LongJump uses open-source components such as the MySQL database and Tomcat application server under the hood, according to its website. It offers customers a hosted version through servers at Rackspace, but also provides the ability to self-host in the data center or cloud service of their choosing…
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