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  • Salesforce-Owned Heroku Eliminates Free Plans

    Salesforce-Owned Heroku Eliminates Free Plans

    Salesforce-owned Heroku announced it will eliminate all free plans, citing the cost involved in combating “fraud and abuse.”

    Heroku is a cloud application platform that helps developers “build, deliver, monitor and scale apps.” The company was one of the first cloud platform as a service (PaaS) companies and was snapped up by Salesforce in 2010. Heroku has allowed developers to maintain free accounts, but is now discontinuing them.

    Bob Wise, Heroku General Manager and Salesforce EVP, outlined the change in a blog post:

    Our product, engineering, and security teams are spending an extraordinary amount of effort to manage fraud and abuse of the Heroku free product plans. In order to focus our resources on delivering mission-critical capabilities for customers, we will be phasing out our free plan for Heroku Dynos, free plan for Heroku Postgres, and free plan for Heroku Data for Redis®, as well as deleting inactive accounts.

    Starting October 26, 2022, we will begin deleting inactive accounts and associated storage for accounts that have been inactive for over a year. Starting November 28, 2022, we plan to stop offering free product plans and plan to start shutting down free dynos and data services. We will be sending out a series of email communications to affected users.

    Wise points out that Heroku’s plans start at just $7/mo and include additional certificate management and better app responsiveness than the free plans.

  • Salesforce App Cloud Launched As Unified PaaS Complete With Learning Resource

    Salesforce App Cloud Launched As Unified PaaS Complete With Learning Resource

    Salesforce announced Salesforce App Cloud, which it calls the “next evolution” the Salesforce1 Platform. It brings together Force.com, the new Heroku Enterprise, and the recently announced Lightning user interface, in addition to a new learning resource called Trailhead, which includes tutorials and guides.

    App Cloud falls under the Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) category aimed at enterprise businesses focusing on building apps, whether they are for company use or for customers. It’s essentially a consolidation of several of Salesforce’s products that unifies the experience and makes things less confusing for enterprises and developers.

    “App Cloud enables our customers to quickly build the apps they need, in the way they want,” writes Salesforce’s Tod Nielsen on the company’s blog. “Any builder can leverage our Lightning user experience point-and-click tools to create custom employee apps for any role and department. Every app is instantly mobile and social. Plus, there are pre-integrated, pre-vetted, and customizable grab-and-go apps available through the AppExchange.”

    “Developers get a whole new coding experience using all the same technologies every consumer startup uses,” he adds. “Think open source languages, build packs and add ons, and robust microservices. Devs can focus on coding amazing apps, rather than setting up and managing databases, deployment, scalability, and configuration.”

    Trailhead, the learning resource destination, features a variety of learning “trails,” such as: “Admin Trail – Migrating to Lightning Experience,” “Developer Trail – Beginner,” “Developer Trail – Intermediate,” “Admin Trail – Intermediate,” and so forth.

    Salesforce’s big Dreamforce conference is coming up next week, so expect plenty more announcements from the company in the coming days.

    Image via Salesforce

  • Oracle to Deliver the Most Comprehensive Cloud on Planet Earth

    Oracle to Deliver the Most Comprehensive Cloud on Planet Earth

    Yesterday Oracle CEO Larry Ellison announced that his company is poised and ready to deliver the most comprehensive cloud this planet has ever seen, and there’s some real substance to what he’s saying.

    Oracle’s new public cloud features their fusion applications delivered as both software as a service (SaaS) and platform as a service (PaaS). On top of their new social network, they will also offer database and Java services.

    A considerable edge which Oracle has over their competition is top-notch security. One of their first customers was the Central Intelligence Agency, and that experience has been at the forefront of all Oracle’s endeavors ever since.

    Oracle CEO, Larry Ellison comments:

    “We have very comprehensive, fine-grained security in our system,”

    “Your database is not commingled with other customers’ data,”

    “It’s a big difference between our cloud and others on the market.”

    “Modern virtual technology is how we offer safety.”

    Check out Ellison’s first tweet from the Oracle Social Network:

    Larry Ellison
    @larryellison     Oracle’s got 100+ enterprise applications live in the #cloud today, SAP’s got nothin’ but SuccessFactors until 2020
    14 hours ago via web · powered by @socialditto
     Reply  · Retweet  · Favorite

    Actually it is a monumental achievement for Oracle who took a lot of flak for moving all their applications from on-premise to the cloud many years back. They have invested heavily over the past half decade and it has really paid off for them. Cloud computing is the next big thing and they were on of the first to get there.

    Ellison again comments:

    “We think a modern cloud lets you decide when you want to upgrade, not have the cloud vendor tell you when you have to upgrade,”

    “We think that’s a very big deal. We’ll allow you, within reason, to decide when to upgrade.”

    And it seems that Oracle is still investing heavily in the future. Earlier this week we reported on the company’s intention to acquire Collective Intellect, a cloud-based social monitor and analytics firm. The addition of Collective Intellect to Oracle’s already broad base of client services will allow their customers to understand and anticipate consumer’s actions on a much fuller spectrum.

    Late last month, Oracle also revealed their plan to acquire Virtue Social Marketing Platform. Among other things, Virtue allows clients to manage social media campaigns across Twitter, Facebook, Google+, and YouTube. This investment alone cost Oracle over $300 million.

    So it’s clear Oracle has no plans to stop and this newest public cloud is their shining masterpiece and, most likely, the foundation for all their future innovations and refinements. They don’t seem to worried about the competition, it sounds like they are ahead of the pack on this one.