Thanks James, That would be really helpful. If you haven't sent the email already. I would be really interested to know if they could support Gemstone. That, combined with fuel+tanker could make a fantastic dev environment.
Cheers Andy On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 4:13 PM, <[email protected]>wrote: > 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 Miv?ek <[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 >
