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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.
Engine Yard provides infrastructure services and support to customers to scale their Ruby Rails applications quickly and effortlessly. Engine Yard services are open, cross-platform and available ...
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