VMware Cloud Foundry Now Supports .Net

Until now VMware has been offering development platforms for Java and Ruby and apps for other JVM languages and frameworks. With its latest update VMware Cloud Foundry cloud platform already supports .Net. The company took this step only a day after Microsoft announced plans for supporting open-source tools on the Windows Azure cloud platform.

Cloud Foundry is a VMware’s platform-as-a-service; CloudFoundry.com is the VMware-hosted implementation of Cloud Foundry . To date, VMware has signed up and/or acquired a variety of partners — many of them with open-source offerings — to enable developers to write applications for its platform-as-a-service offering. Among the development platforms already supported on CloudFoundry.com are Spring for Java;  Rails and Sinatra for Ruby; Node.js apps and apps for other JVM languages/frameworks including Groovy, Grails and Scala.

An obvious omission from that list has been .Net. — at least until today, December 13.

Bellevue, Wash.-based Tier 3 Inc. is making availble an open-source.Net Framework implementation of the Cloud Foundry platform. The new offering, known as Iron Foundry, is available on GitHub under an Apache 2.0 license. It’s a fork of Cloud Foundry with ASP.Net support.