Heroku
Cloud platform for deploying web apps; bought by Salesforce in December 2010.
At a glance
Who owns it
Owned by Salesforce since 8 Dec 2010.
People
James Lindenbaum, Adam Wiggins and Orion Henry
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- Heroku is a cloud platform as a service, one of the first.
- It started in 2007 supporting only Ruby, and now also runs Java, Node.js, Python, PHP, Go and others.
- Salesforce bought it in December 2010 for $212 million.
Key facts
- Started
- 20071
- Founders
- James Lindenbaum, Adam Wiggins and Orion Henry1
- Owner
- Salesforce, which bought it on 8 Dec 20101
Who owns it
Owned by Salesforce since 8 Dec 2010.
Parent company
- Salesforce
acquired for $212 million; wholly owned · since 8 Dec 2010 1
People
Founded by
- James Lindenbaum
- Adam WigginsPerson
- Orion Henry
Links
Sources
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