I will contact them and ask what it would take for them to support a new runtime/framework/database. I expect that the primary question will be business opportunity followed by support requirements.
James On Jan 28, 2013, at 3:58 AM, Janko Mivšek <[email protected]> wrote: > What if we ask one of existing commercial PaaS providers to add > Smalltalk among the languages of choice? This way we achieve one-click > Smalltalk cloud apps the fastest way for sure. > > Right now I'm looking at AppFog http://www.appfog.com. This is > CloudFoundry based PaaS provider over the Amazon, Rackspace and Azure > IaaS providers. It supports also "unusual" languages like Erlang and Go > [1], so maybe they are open for Smalltalk too. > > James, AppCloud is located in Portland, Gemstone as well, so you are > neighbors :) Do you think it would be wise to make a contact with them > to start discussing the possibilities? > > Best regards > Janko > > [1] Languages and Runtimes > https://docs.appfog.com/roadmap#langs > > Dne 28. 01. 2013 09:17, piše Geert Claes: >> While it is great that one can actually use Smalltalk in Cloud Foundry ... it >> does require a lot of steps to get it going. Having said that reckon it >> would be interresting to have an easy to use Pharo-as-a-Service. For >> persistence maybe rely on things like MongoLab or MongoHQ so you don't have >> to worry about that? >> >> >> fstephany wrote >>> http://programminggems.wordpress.com/2012/02/17/adding-smalltalk-to-cloud-foundry/ >>> >>> http://programminggems.wordpress.com/2012/02/27/using-mysql-in-aida-on-pharo/ >>> >>> https://programminggems.wordpress.com/2012/02/28/using-mysql-from-smalltalk-in-cloud-foundry/ >>> >>> Are the three articles describing it :) >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> View this message in context: >> http://forum.world.st/Phaas-anyone-interested-in-setting-up-Pharo-as-a-Service-tp4665479p4665784.html >> Sent from the Pharo Smalltalk Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >> >> > > -- > Janko Mivšek > Aida/Web > Smalltalk Web Application Server > http://www.aidaweb.si > >
