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Heroku Hires Ruby Creator

Heroki couldn’t help point out that Ruby runs many of the world’s most popular brands
By Maureen O'Gara
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July 15, 2011 02:15 PM EDT
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Heroku, Salesforce.com's bought-in Rack-/Ruby-on-Rails-based Platform-as-a-Service, has hired Ruby creator Yukihiro Matsumoto as its chief Ruby architect expecting he'll make the language friendlier.

Heroki couldn't help point out that Ruby runs many of the world's most popular brands like Comcast, Best Buy, AT&T's Yellow pages, Hulu and Twitter. Heroku itself reportedly powers more than 150,000 apps written by Ruby developers.

The start-up says "Matz" will continue working as research fellow at the Network Applied Communication Laboratory, an open source systems integrator in Japan. He will also retain his position as fellow at Rakuten Institute of Technology, the R&D arm of Rakuten, Japan's largest e-commerce company.

Salesforce picked Heroku up for $212 million in December.

Published July 15, 2011 – Reads 517
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