malachismith

AppFog is the parent company. PHP Fog and AppFog are the two PaaS products that AppFog the company make and sell.

In that case, shouldn't we all be using C?

It's the oldest, yes.

Same in that they are both AWS and sometimes generate errors - yes. Not the same in that East has had four significant outages in the last 16 months and West has not.

Actually, if you do the normalization to make it apples to apples (and adjust for the difference in RAM) it looks price competitive. My numbers make it look slightly more expensive than AWS EAST (teh suck) and slightly less expensive than AWS WEST.

1) because AWS East is so much cheaper (and none of us like spending money) 2) AppFog actually is multi region (and multi IaaS as well)

Do we all agree that we are completely over AWS-EAST now? It's NOT worth the cost savings.

Goat rodeo.

You kind of miss the point. This is a philosophical argument ILLUSTRATED through OpenGL and a port. To quote, "thou shalt not break working code"

Honestly... as much as this might sound interesting, I don't understand Microsoft's decision to not announce availability OR pricing.

Earn for their employers. Yes. Earn for themselves? Not so much.

Larger, older, slower, more fragile. And cheaper.

a PaaS like Heroku ends up being "front line support" for AWS. if you use Heroku and your apps fail, you don't care if it is Amazon's fault - you blame Heroku

This whole thing smells like link-bait to me. I mean, I'm guessing this is the first time a post from Adobe has been high up on Hacker News in what…. forever?

Well... of course you should always determine Use Case first and then choose technology based on that.

Strikes me as kinda close to paid advertorial, yeah?

these guys (http://www.gcalaw.com/) are good, affordable and nice people to boot.

Portland is blowing up!

Thanks!! Nice to see Backbone getting some love...

When Scott Guthrie spoke at Node Summit he was presenting off a Macbook Air....

You could always use AppFog on top of Azure. Then you get proper PaaS plus Azure IaaS....

The addition of long-running linux instances is one of the big wins here.

You've GOT to be kidding me.

"Mr. David A. Ebersman has been Chief Financial Officer of Facebook Inc. since September 2009. Mr. Ebersman oversees Facebook's finance, accounting, investor relations and real estate functions. Prior to joining Facebook, he served as Chief Financial Officer of Genentech Inc., from March 5, 2005 to April 2009 and its Executive Vice President from January 2006 to April 2009. Mr. Ebersman also served as Senior Vice President of Finance at Genentech Inc. from January 5, 2005 to March 2005 and as Senior Vice President of Product Operations from May 2001 to January 4, 2005. He joined Genentech in February 1994 as a Business Development Analyst and served as its Senior Director of Product Development from March 1998 to February 1999, as Vice President of Product Development from February 1999 to May 2001, as Manager of Business Development from February 1995 to February 1996 and as its Director of Business Development from February 1996 to March 1998. Prior to Genentech, he served as a Research Analyst at Oppenheimer & Co. Inc., Research Division. He has been a Director of Castlight Health, Inc. since July 14, 2011. He has been a Director of Intarcia Therapeutics, Inc. since July 2004 and Ironwood Pharmaceuticals Inc. since July 2009. He is a fellow in the Henry Crown Fellowship Program. Mr. Ebersman holds an A.B. in Economics and International Relations from Brown University."

Weasels. Seriously.

And it's ridiculously elitist that only brain surgeons get to cut people's brains open. I mean come on! Is this a democracy or not?!?!

Have they ever shown they care?

solid win for google - but HUGE loss for HP.

It's sad when old people get bitter about change

Censorship is censorship. End of story.

wow that's pathetic shit. both sad and deeply depressing. there is NO place for this kind of sexist bullshit in the modern world. grow up. please.