BELLEVUE, USA: Tier 3, Inc., the enterprise cloud platform provider, today announced that it has contributed to the open source community a .NET Framework implementation of the Cloud Foundry Open Platform as a Service (Paas).

Named Iron Foundry, this contribution gives the industry's fastest growing open source PaaS an implementation based on the popular development framework, .NET, said a press release.

Tier 3's Iron Foundry contribution consists of the three key components required for developers to quickly leverage the open source project for their own PaaS implementation or to leverage Iron Foundry to deploy applications to the cloud immediately.

In addition to a core .NET Framework fork of Cloud Foundry, which Tier 3 is committing to keep it in sync with the main Cloud Foundry branch, developers can also access IronFoundry.org for both a Windows version of Cloud Foundry Explorer as well as a Visual Studio Plugin for Cloud Foundry. Tier 3 will also make the core code available on GitHub under an Apache 2.0 license.

"At Tier 3, we believe that PaaS is so universal and so foundational to the adoption of cloud for web applications that it should be an open source framework," said Jared Wray, chief technology officer, Tier 3.

"As enterprises accelerate the deployment of their mission-critical applications to the cloud, the need for a .NET-based Cloud Foundry PaaS in the marketplace was acute. As fans of the open source nature of Cloud Foundry - and as a .NET based-cloud platform ourselves - we were excited to take on this opportunity to support the enterprise developer and open source communities and to foster innovation for the cloud."

"Tier3's contribution of .NET Framework support is another powerful example of the open Cloud Foundry ecosystem in action," said Jerry Chen, vice president of cloud and application services at VMware.

"The availability of the .NET Framework on Cloud Foundry will greatly expand .NET developers' ability to deploy their applications across a wide variety of clouds."