A couple of weeks ago, we demo'd a preview of the Stackato 2.0 release to James Governor of RedMonk. He mentioned that it would be fun to add Gravatars to the Stackato Web Console. We agreed, and I was given the task of adding it into the console.
Stackato 2.0 now has integrated .NET support via the Iron Foundry.NET project. Iron Foundry is an open source project that extends .NET to any Cloud Foundry-based Platform as Service (PaaS). By integrating Iron Foundry with Stackato, we can now make Windows DEAs available on any Stackato cluster with the ability to run the full spectrum of .NET Web Applications, SQL Server, and more.
Portability is a core principle in Stackato. We developed it on a codebase which is not tied to any particular hypervisor. We distribute it in a variety of formats for all the popular hypervisors.
Today, ActiveState announced a joint technology collaboration with FeedHenry. FeedHenry’s cloud-based mobile application platform simplifies the development, integration, deployment. and management of secure mobile apps for business. And that innovative mobile technology is now integrated with Stackato, providing a unified mobility solution for enterprises and developers looking to host mobile applications within a private cloud.
[Dan Razzell has just joined ActiveState and already we've coerced him into blogging. The following analysis of configuraiton management tools vs. Platform-as-a-Service was written in the context of a lively (and ongoing) discussion sparked by the recent online debate between David Cramer and Randall Degges on the merits and weaknesses of both approaches. --TT]
For some developers, cloud computing can serve as a gateway drug for developing “shadow” IT projects. This isn’t new: Developers were going rogue long before easy access to computing resources via the cloud. The cloud has just made the potential of corporate risk exposure exponentially greater.
A couple of weeks ago, we demo'd a preview of the 
Stackato 2.0 now has integrated .NET support via the Iron Foundry.NET project. Iron Foundry is an open source project that extends .NET to any Cloud Foundry-based Platform as Service (PaaS). By integrating Iron Foundry with Stackato, we can now make Windows DEAs available on any Stackato cluster with the ability to run the full spectrum of .NET Web Applications, SQL Server, and more.
