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PaaS based on Drupal, Ruby on Rails announced

By | June 8, 2011, 8:13am PDT

Summary: Red Hat isn’t the only open source provider pursuing the Platform-as-a-Service market for developers. This week, Acquia and Engine Yard announced they have joined forces to create a cloud service for Drupal and Ruby on Rails. The new fully managed PaaS will incorporate Acquia’s open source web content management system based on Drupal and Engine Yard’s Ruby [...]

Red Hat isn’t the only open source provider pursuing the Platform-as-a-Service market for developers.

This week, Acquia and Engine Yard announced they have joined forces to create a cloud service for Drupal and Ruby on Rails. The new fully managed PaaS will incorporate Acquia’s open source web content management system based on Drupal and Engine Yard’s Ruby on Rails development platform for the cloud.

The combined offering should attract a decent following. Drupal is a leading open source CMS offering and Ruby on Rails is a leading open source development platform.

MuleSoft and Red Hat are other open source providers that recently announced their intent to pursue the emerging PaaS market.

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Paula Rooney has covered the software and technology industry for more than 20 years, starting with semiconductor design and mini-computer systems at EDN News and later focused on PC software companies including Microsoft, Lotus, Oracle, Red Hat, Novell and other open source and commercial software companies for CRN and PCWeek. She received a silver award from the American Society of Business Publication Editors in 2005 for her profile on Linus Torvalds and edited and co-authored "Partnering With Microsoft," a book about Microsoft's channel published by CMP Publishing in 2004. Rooney graduated from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 1997. In her off time, she enjoys scuba diving, sailing, sun worshipping, running, reading, surfing (the net) and hanging out with her family. She resides on the shores of Scituate, Massachusetts.

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