Aptana to Offer Platform In The Cloud

28 May

I’m a big fan of Aptana. Everyone I’ve worked with at Figaro Interactive, including clients who are web devs, I recommend Aptana to – it just works. Also, it’s the perfect plug in for Flex Builder. The development is very active and the community is great too.

Just saw in the ‘Message Center’ that they are planning to launch a Cloud Platform – from the eweek.com article:

When released, Aptana Cloud will be the first elastic application cloud with ready-made Web stacks for the most popular scripting languages, “featuring the most popular and widely adopted Web infrastructure, ready to use and scale as you need it,” Hakman said. “You can develop on your desktop and sync out to the cloud.”

Aptana Cloud features ready-to-go services, such as PHP, MySQL and Apache Web servers. In addition, Aptana Jaxer enables AJAX developers to use their JavaScript and AJAX skills on the server-side to build entire applications, data services or presentation tiers that complement PHP and Ruby On Rails.

Veeeeery Iiiinteresting, indeed. I like the idea and think it’s going to be a smashing success.

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