Engine Yard takes Orchestra to add PHP support to its PAAS

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Engine Yard, provider solutions platform as a service (PAAS) this morning announced that it acquired developer platform for Orchestra, deployment, scaling and managing PHP applications.

Engine Yard, which is based on the investors as benchmark capital, new Enterprise Associates, and Amazon.com, decided not to disclose the financial terms of the acquisition.

San Francisco company is best known for his PAAS for Ruby on Rails applications, but the acquisition will allow the company to add support for PHP applications.

Engine Yard statement said will continue to develop PHP platform and the Orchestra continue to invest in both Ruby on Rails and PHP open source communities and projects. There are no plans to discontinue support or development of any Orchestra's offerings.

The Orchestra is echolibre, an Irish company avid contribution to community PHP and the creators of the open API framework FRAPI, source (among other projects).

The whole team will be joining engine yard Orchestra due to the acquisition.

To date, engine yard was raised $37,5 million in financing. The company competes with other venture-backed startup Heroku, which was acquired by Salesforce for 212 million dollars in cash at the end of last year), among others.

Announcement-August 23, 2011 Orchestra from the Orchestra on Vimeo.

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Radian6 takes social media monitoring platform for Mobile with new iOS Salesforce App

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Radian6, which was acquired by Salesforce 326 million dollars earlier this year, has offered some of the world's largest brands, Web social media monitoring platform. However, the company has not offered a mobile component clients monitor brands to go far. Today, Salesforce Radian6 announces its first mobile presence with new application iOS.

Radian6 helps clients like Dell, GE, Kodak and UPS to monitor, analyze, and participate in the "hundreds of millions of" conversations in social media. User interface is similar to the Radian6 Web platform, and agencies and marketers can now control the overall volume, share of conversation, geographical distribution and more data from your application on social media sites like Facebook and Twitter. You can filter, the keyword, type, date range, and more to view conversations.

You can also create a custom listening "stacked" based on certain topics, lists, user assignment, and mood. Managers can actually post classification and assign tasks to staff from the application. And users are able to respond to Tweets, posts, threads or blog comments straight from your application.

The application itself is free for users of Radian6. It is actually surprising that Radian6 not iPhone app considering that a large part of social media monitoring for brands takes place in real-time and mobile applications helps marketers keep track of conversations on the go. The company claims that the Android application is on the product roadmap. "

It should be interesting to see how Salesforce integrates with own products like Radian6 chatter. In the past, told CRM giant ' combination will create a bridge between public conversations and chatter "and" raise the Salesforce's sales and service cloud products with social intelligence that can respond to clients. Developers based on Force.com will also have the opportunity to unleash the power of Radian6, implementing everything that they build the social web. "

Radian6 helps companies to listen to what people are saying about them online and to participate in those conversations into the social network. From the blogs and comments to the media, tips, forums ...

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