{"id":20972,"date":"2011-01-03T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-03T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.salesforce.com\/?post_type=sf_press_release&#038;p=20972"},"modified":"2020-09-18T00:38:33","modified_gmt":"2020-09-18T00:38:33","slug":"salesforce-com-completes-acquisition-of-heroku","status":"publish","type":"sf_press_release","link":"https:\/\/www.salesforce.com\/news\/press-releases\/2011\/01\/03\/salesforce-com-completes-acquisition-of-heroku\/","title":{"rendered":"Salesforce.com Completes Acquisition of Heroku"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Salesforce.com [NYSE: CRM], the enterprise cloud computing (http:\/\/www.salesforce.com\/cloudcomputing\/) company, today announced it has completed its acquisition of Heroku, the privately held cloud platform for writing Ruby-based applications. The acquisition positions salesforce.com to take a greater share of the public cloud services market, projected by IDC to reach $55.5 billion in 2014.Heroku is the leading Ruby application platform-as-a-service,<br \/> powering more than 110,000 next-generation social and mobile cloud applications<br \/> <br \/> Salesforce.com cloud platform will support major Cloud 2 languages \u2013 Java and Ruby<br \/> <br \/> <br \/> <br \/> SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 3, 2011 \u2013 Salesforce.com [NYSE: CRM], the enterprise cloud computing (http:\/\/www.salesforce.com\/cloudcomputing\/) company, today announced it has completed its acquisition of Heroku, the privately held cloud platform for writing Ruby-based applications. The acquisition positions salesforce.com to take a greater share of the public cloud services market, projected by IDC to reach $55.5 billion in 2014.<br \/> <br \/> Heroku is the leading Ruby platform-as-a-service, built from the ground up to work in an open environment and take advantage of the Ruby language. Ruby has become the leading development language used to write Cloud 2 apps that are social, collaborative and deliver real-time access to information across mobile devices. Today, Heroku powers more than 110,000 apps, written by an avid following of Ruby developers. <br \/> <br \/> <br \/> Comments on the News<br \/> <br \/> \u201cHeroku is the leading Ruby application platform and Ruby is the language of the future, driving the next generation of cloud applications that are real-time, social and mobile,\u201d said Marc Benioff, chairman and CEO, salesforce.com. \u201cWith Heroku, our platform can become the cornerstone of the next-generation of cloud computing.\u201d<br \/> <br \/> \u201cCloud app platforms are redefining how applications are built and run &#8212; with an order of magnitude improvement in developer productivity and business agility,\u201d said Byron Sebastian, Heroku CEO. \u201cWe&#8217;re excited about accelerating Heroku\u2019s &#8212; and Ruby&#8217;s &#8212; momentum in leading this industry transformation.&quot;<br \/> <br \/> <br \/> Accelerating the Enterprise Shift to Cloud 2<br \/> <br \/> Salesforce.com anticipates that the acquisition will help it attract and serve a critical mass of developers, customers and ISVs wanting an open, scalable and trusted Cloud 2 platform. Heroku and salesforce.com share a common vision of providing an open and portable programming environment that doesn\u2019t require customers to take on the expense or maintenance headaches that come with buying and deploying hardware and software. In fact, Heroku was built with the same multi-tenant philosophy that is the hallmark of salesforce.com\u2019s Force.com platform.<br \/> <br \/> Salesforce.com not only gains a highly talented team and access to the rapidly expanding community of Ruby developers, but also gets technology and intellectual property assets that don\u2019t exist anywhere else. Salesforce.com expects that &#8212; together with VMforce, the enterprise Java cloud for the more than 6 million Java developers &#8212; Heroku will enable the company to become the leading platform provider for a broad array of Cloud 2 applications. <br \/> <br \/> <br \/> About Heroku<br \/> <br \/> Heroku was founded in 2007 by Orion Henry, James Lindenbaum and Adam Wiggins, with the goal of creating a platform-as-a-service that would make deploying, managing and scaling next-generation web applications as easy as writing them. The industry-leading Ruby application platform, Heroku features a workflow and interface that mimics how developers work. Heroku\u2019s multi-tenant architecture means no virtual machines to manage, no software to install, and no complicated platform stacks to manage and tune. Developers can focus on writing their code \u2013 and Heroku takes care of everything else. Based in San Francisco, Heroku has about 30 employees. <br \/> <br \/> <br \/> About Salesforce.com <br \/> <br \/> Salesforce.com is the trusted enterprise cloud computing company. Based on salesforce.com\u2019s real-time, multitenant architecture, the company\u2019s Force.com platform and apps (http:\/\/www.salesforce.com\/crm) have revolutionized the way companies collaborate and communicate. Salesforce.com\u2019s cloud offerings include:<br \/> <br \/> \u2022 The Sales Cloud, for sales force automation and contact management<br \/> \u2022 The Service Cloud, for customer service and support <br \/> \u2022 The Jigsaw Data Cloud, for ensuring data integrity and quality <br \/> \u2022 Salesforce Chatter, for social collaboration<br \/> \u2022 The Force.com platform, for custom application development<br \/> \u2022 Database.com, the world\u2019s first enterprise cloud database <br \/> \u2022 The AppExchange, the world\u2019s leading marketplace for enterprise cloud computing<br \/> apps<br \/> <br \/> Salesforce.com offers the fastest path to customer success with cloud computing. As of October 31,<br \/> 2010, salesforce.com manages customer information for approximately 87,200 customers including<br \/> Allianz Commercial, Dell, Japan Post, Kaiser Permanente, KONE, and SunTrust Banks.<br \/> <br \/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Salesforce.com [NYSE: CRM], the enterprise cloud computing (http:\/\/www.salesforce.com\/cloudcomputing\/) company, today announced it has completed its a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"sf_subhead":"Salesforce.com [NYSE: CRM], the enterprise cloud computing (http:\/\/www.salesforce.com\/cloudcomputing\/) company, today announced it has completed its a","sf_i18n_disclaimer":false,"alternateThumbnailId":0,"sf_product_cta_id":0,"footnotes":""},"sf_content_type":[1755,1776],"sf_theme":[1917],"sf_topic":[1734,1763,1777,1779],"sf_product":[1801,1748],"sf_industry":[],"sf_role":[],"sf_multimedia_asset":[],"sf_location":[1724],"sf_collection":[],"sf_visibility":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-20972","sf_press_release","type-sf_press_release","status-publish","hentry","sf_content_type-press-releases","sf_content_type-press-releases-corporate","sf_theme-customer-engagement","sf_topic-customer-engagement","sf_topic-innovation","sf_topic-mergers-and-acquisitions","sf_topic-ventures","sf_product-heroku","sf_product-salesforce-platform","sf_location-amer"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.2 (Yoast SEO v27.2) - 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