What next for Cloud Foundry?
December 13, 2012
Grazed from GigaOM. Author: Barb Darrow.
VMware aggressively recruited partners to base platforms on its open-source Cloud Foundry stack. Now as it preps the Pivotal Initiative spinoff, those partners worry about more intense competition with the Cloud Foundry mothership. We all know now that VMware is spinning off its Cloud Foundry Platform as a Service (PaaS) effort to The Pivotal Initiative, along with some other VMware and EMC technologies.
What we still don’t know is what the emergence of this new entity means for the Cloud Foundry ecosystem — the third parties that built their own platforms atop the Cloud Foundry platform. Officially, no one’s saying anything beyond VMware’s opaque blog post announcing the move. Basically, VMware told us all to check back in Q1 2013 for details…
Unofficially the word to these partners, who worry about having to compete more with the Pivotal mothership’s Cloud Foundry commercial release, is: ”remain calm.” Companies that built their PaaSes atop Foundry include Tier 3, Uhuru, AppFog and Activestate…
Read more from the source @ http://gigaom.com/cloud/what-next-for-cloud-foundry/