Salesforce.com acquires Heroku

SAN FRANCISCO, USA: Cloud computing company Salesforce.com announced that it has acquired Heroku, a privately-held cloud platform for writing Ruby-based applications.

Salesforce.com claims that this acquisition can position it to take a greater share of the public cloud services market, which is projected by IDC to reach $55.5 billion in 2014.

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"Heroku 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," said Marc Benioff, chairman and CEO, salesforce.com. "With Heroku, our platform can become the cornerstone of the next-generation of cloud computing."

"Cloud app platforms are redefining how applications are built and run -- with an order of magnitude improvement in developer productivity and business agility," said Byron Sebastian, CEO, Heroku. "We're excited about accelerating Heroku's -- and Ruby's -- momentum in leading this industry transformation."

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.

Salesforce.com expects that together with VMforce, the enterprise Java cloud for the more than 6 million Java developers, Heroku will enable the company to become the leading platform provider for a broad array of Cloud 2 applications.