I’ve just had a really pleasant experience looking at Heroku – the ‘cloud application platform’ from Salesforce.com but it’s left me wondering where it fits in.

A mate of mine who works for Salesforce.com suggested I look at Heroku after I told him that I’d had some good and bad experiences with Google’s AppEngine and Amazon’s EC2. I’d been looking for somewhere to host some Python code that I’d written in my spare time and I had looked at both AppEngine and EC2 and found pros and cons with both of them.

As it turns out it was a good suggestion  because More >