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Microsoft joins Java-oriented Cloud Foundry

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Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
Jun 15, 2017

At the Cloud Foundry Summit in Santa Clara, Calif., Microsoft announced the company has joined the Cloud Foundry Foundation as a Gold Member. What’s Microsoft doing joining an open-source Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) cloud provider, which largely uses Java and Node.js to build applications instead of .NET Core? Easy. Corey Sanders, Microsoft’s director of Azure Compute, told me: “That’s where the customers are.”

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Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols

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