Cloud Foundry interop scheme leaves PaaS players certifiable The Cloud Foundry Foundation has created what amounts to a good cloudkeeping seal of approval. The new Cloud Foundry Certification is “designed to establish reliable portability across PaaS products in a multi-vendor, multi-cloud environment.” Or in other words, if a platform-as-a-service provider can wave around the …
Read the details, this is veiled extortion by the Cloud Foundry foundation. I can download the Apache 2 licensed open source code and create products and services, but unless I pay $50k not only am I not "certified" but I cannot call my offering "Cloud Foundry". The certification is so restrictive that any real application is not going to be guaranteed portable (the cert doesn't specify services, languages, runtimes, etc.)
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