Amazon mooches from Tomcat as it bets on Java in the cloud

[Sneha Chowdary]

The fact that Amazon.com selected the open source [url=http://www.infoworld.com/d/open-source/tomcat-7-finalized-674]Apache Tomcat[/url] as the Java application server powering Amazon.com's entry into the [url=http://www.infoworld.com/t/java]Java[/url] platform-as-a-service market came as little surprise to Java vendors and industry watchers. Amazon.com's pricing strategy, on the other hand, will surely surprise some vendors and IT decision makers. Additionally, Amazon.com's apparent lack of contributions to the Apache Tomcat project should be considered as you make your Java cloud-platform selection decisions.
[b]Betting on Java in the cloud[/b]
Amazon.com's newly announced [url=http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2011/01/introducing-elastic-beanstalk.html]AWS (Amazon Web Services) Elastic Beanstalk beta[/url] cloud offering is being positioned as proof that Java is alive and well. Sacha Labourey, CEO at CloudBees, a Java cloud platform provider, [url=http://blog.cloudbees.com/2011/01/java-in-cloud-amazon-joins-party.html]writes[/url]: "This is great news as it reinforces the message that the future of Java is in the cloud, not on premises." (I'd adjust Labourey's comment to read: "the future of Java is in the cloud [i]and[/i] on premises.")

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