Open-Source Cloud Tools Project Spawn Cloud Foundry

For those of you addicted to everything GOOGLE, you might have seen the open-source Cloud Tools project, hosted on Google Code. It is a prime example of the emerging trend of open-source developers targeting the cloud and looking at services such as Amazon Web Services and Google App Engine to host their applications.

LANSA is starting to pursue Cloud Computing more aggressively. Their upcoming webinars regarding LANSA Mashups is a good example of leveraging this approach to systems. By the way...a little toot your own horn here...John Reuter from Rippe & Kingston presented LANSA Mashups at the last LANSA Conference. Way to go John...ahead of the curve as usual. John incorporated our e.ssential Portal and Contract Guardian (LANSA WAMS) as part of the mashup.