Salesforce announced today that it has acquired Heroku, which develops and deploys web-based applications that rely on the programming language Ruby on Rails, for $212 million as part of its Cloud ...

Salesforce.com has completed its acquisition of Heroku, a supplier of a cloud computing platform for developing Ruby-based applications, the company said Monday.

Salesforce.com's acquisition of cloud-application Heroku is a play for Ruby developers and their Ruby-based applications, according to analysts.

News. Salesforce To Acquire Ruby PaaS Heroku . By John K. Waters; December 9, 2010; Salesforce.com CEO Mark Benioff sees Cloud 2.0 on the horizon, and he believes that Ruby will be its lingua ...

Salesforce.com said Wednesday that it will acquire Heroku, a cloud platform for writing applications in the Ruby programming language, for $212 million. The news, which comes out of Salesforce.com ...

Salesforce.com said on Wednesday it will acquire Heroku, a company that specializes in hosting applications based on the Ruby programming language, for $212 million. With the acquisition, online ...

Salesforce.com, with its addition of Heroku’s Ruby cloud application platform, wants to position itself as a destination for next-generation application developers. But rival cloud vendor Engine ...