Engine Yard takes $15m Series B Round from NEA, Amazon and Benchmark

Re:Engine Yard takes $15m Series B Round from NEA, Amazon an... by tlrobinson on Monday July 14, 2008 @07:10AM (#245631)

Interesting that Amazon is investing in them... they're sort of an EC2 competitor.

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Re:Engine Yard takes $15m Series B Round from NEA, Amazon an... by nuclear_eclipse on Monday July 14, 2008 @02:16PM (#245899)

If I get the idea correctly, Amazon isn't investing in EY; Amazon is investing in development of general Ruby technology that benefits everyone in the Ruby/Rails communities, including Amazon and EY.

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Re:Engine Yard takes $15m Series B Round from NEA, Amazon an... by jvantuyl on Tuesday July 22, 2008 @04:54AM (#253106)

Actually, we're not really an EC2 competitor. In fact, in the future we're just as likely to be an EC2 consumer.

What we provide, today, is a premium service that can take a small amount of Ruby expertise and make it much more effective.

What we will provide, tomorrow, is the above, plus an infrastructure for distributing your applications into the cloud(s) of your choice. That's Vertebra (disclosure: I designed Vertebra, so I may be biased).

Amazon has everything to gain from our efforts. We aim to make Ruby, Vertebra, and our customers into first-class citizens in the world of EC2 and beyond.

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