| By Maureen O'Gara |
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| July 17, 2011 03:00 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.
Maureen O'Gara the most read technology reporter for the past 20 years, is the Cloud Computing and Virtualization News Desk editor of SYS-CON Media. She is the publisher of famous "Billygrams" and the editor-in-chief of "Client/Server News" for more than a decade. One of the most respected technology reporters in the business, Maureen can be reached by email at maureen(at)sys-con.com or paperboy(at)g2news.com, and by phone at 516 759-7025. Twitter: @MaureenOGara
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