Microsoft today announced that it is joining the Cloud Foundry Foundation, the non-profit behind the open source Cloud Foundry platform-as-a-service project that’s currently in use by about half of the Fortune 500 companies.
Microsoft is joining at the Gold Member tier where it joins the likes of Google (which joined last December and also hired the foundation’s former CEO Sam Ramji), Huawei, Ford, GE Digital, NTT, Philips and Swisscom in supporting the project.
When I talked to him about this announcement last week, Cloud Foundry Foundation CTO Chip Childers noted that the addition of Microsoft to the roster of formal project supporters means that the project now has the support of two of the largest hyper-scale clouds — Google and Microsoft (which means that they must be seeing some clear demand from enterprises on their platforms for this as well).
Read more here: https://techcrunch.com/2017/06/13/microsoft-joins-the-open-source-cloud-foundry-foundation/
