The open source Cloud Foundry Foundation is growing today with the addition of OpenStack vendor Mirantis to its membership roster. The move is a very interesting one for many reasons.
Cloud Foundry has emerged in recent years to become a leading Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) platform. The project which was originally started as an open source effort by VMware back in 2011 and then spun out to VMware’s sister company Pivotal. The Cloud Foundry Foundation itself was officially announced in December 2014, as a Linux Foundation backed collaboration project.