Man Survives Steve Ballmer’s Flying Chair To Build ’21st Century Linux’

Re:Man Survives Steve Ballmer’s Flying Chair To Build ’21st ... by teyc on Friday November 18, 2011 @09:36PM (#3254386)

For hackers, this is how PR is done. The hook is Steve Balmer's flying chair, but the aim of the stsory is to position Cloud Foundry as what Microsoft isn't. Very well done. If anything it might convince people to take a closer look at it.

I had downloaded cloud foundry when it was announced but did little with it. I might have a closer look again.

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Re:Man Survives Steve Ballmer’s Flying Chair To Build ’21st ... by nikcub on Friday November 18, 2011 @11:23PM (#3254558)

As I was reading that story I was imagining the pitch email that was sent by VMWare's PR team to this journalist.

Sometimes it is a little too artificial. You are right though, if you give most writers an interesting hook, they will use it and then recite the remainder of your pitch deck almost verbatim (as in this case)

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Re:Man Survives Steve Ballmer’s Flying Chair To Build ’21st ... by wattersjames on Friday November 18, 2011 @11:45PM (#3254605)

Don't be so sure this started as a PR pitch...Cade has been covering Cloud Foundry and Appfog since they adopted Cloud Foundry, see all of his articles about it over at the Register, example: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/09/13/appfog_adds_ruby_and...

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Re:Man Survives Steve Ballmer’s Flying Chair To Build ’21st ... by cssblondie on Saturday November 19, 2011 @02:48AM (#3254876)

You haven't read Metz' past work if you think he's reciting a blind pitch. Don't talk out of your ass.

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Re:Man Survives Steve Ballmer’s Flying Chair To Build ’21st ... by jvoorhis on Saturday November 19, 2011 @01:34AM (#3254781)

If you want to give it another try, email me at [email protected] and I'll set you up with a private beta account. We're committed to making it as easy as possible to get started.

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Re:Man Survives Steve Ballmer’s Flying Chair To Build ’21st ... by dpritchett on Saturday November 19, 2011 @09:37AM (#3255362)

Any inside info on Python support? It seems a curious omission when they run node, ruby, and java.

Edit: Just saw that AppFog offers a wider range of technologies than the CloudFoundry page mentions.

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Re:Man Survives Steve Ballmer’s Flying Chair To Build ’21st ... by jvoorhis on Saturday November 19, 2011 @03:42PM (#3256189)

Python support is forthcoming. Email me at [email protected] if you'd like to discuss in more detail.

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Re:Man Survives Steve Ballmer’s Flying Chair To Build ’21st ... by DavidChouinard on Saturday November 19, 2011 @07:24AM (#3255170)

I highly recommend this 2005 PG essay on PR: http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html Very enlightening.

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