Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: ModBox - an Open Platform as a Service (OPaaS)

Ok, you just hijacked a thread (I think (I don't have threading enabled)) and you top posted. You've probably burned through your goodwill in one shot :/ Cheers, Rob. On Mon, 2009-01-19 at 14:32 -0500, cl@wizzyweb.com wrote: > After posting to this list to see if it is appropriate and getting good > feedback, I'm posting an announcement I think is very relative to this list > as I have been using PHP ever since it was a Perl script (PHP/FI) and have > been heavily influenced by it's concept and evolution when creating what I > am announcing. So the announcement is the launch of something I have been > working on in my spare time for a long time and what I believe will be a > logical next step in Internet development - ModBox an "Open Platform as a > Service" (OPaaS). Ok, what the #@#$ is OPaaS? OPaaS is PaaS, but open. Think > Force.com/Google App Engine/Amazon EC2 - but open. Really open. Not fake > open like so much other BS services that try to lock you in. In a nutshell, > ModBox is a Web-based distributed development environment that is completely > neutral in every way. So, you can use any infrastructure you want, any > programming language, any server, any OS, any database, etc. to > create/distribute applications. Also, because ModBox works over standard > HTTP, you can incorporate existing applications or web services into the > applications you create. ModBox brings all the pieces together seemlessly > for programmers and users. I hope I have borrowed the best ideas from IDE's, > RAD, frameworks, Web services grid/cloud computing and Open Source to make a > logical ecosystem which puts a much needed front-end/face on all of it. This > list is the first place I have announced ModBox and I welcome you to Rock > the Box and let me know if it makes as much sense to you as it does to me. I > would, of course greatly appreciate any feedback as I am not so bold to > think I have cracked the code on the 1.0. The URL is below. > > ModBox - Open Platform as a Service: > http://www.sullivansoftwaresystems.com/modbox > > Thanks for your time. > > Brian Sullivan > Sullivan Software Systems > ModBox - Rock the Box. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Robert Cummings" <robert@interjinn.com> > To: "Eric Butera" <eric.butera@gmail.com> > Cc: "Daniel Brown" <danbrown@php.net>; <cl@wizzyweb.com>; > <php-general@lists.php.net> > Sent: Monday, January 19, 2009 1:20 PM > Subject: Re: [PHP] Need List Advice > > > > On Mon, 2009-01-19 at 12:55 -0500, Eric Butera wrote: > >> On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 12:42 PM, Robert Cummings <robert@interjinn.com> > >> wrote: > >> > On Mon, 2009-01-19 at 12:25 -0500, Daniel Brown wrote: > >> >> On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 11:33, <cl@wizzyweb.com> wrote: > >> >> > I have been looking but can't find which PHP list is best to post > >> >> > info > >> >> > regarding a new PHP tool. I have seen new product/service > >> >> > announcements on > >> >> > this list, but thought there might be a better list. Any > >> >> > suggestions? > >> >> > >> >> As long as it's an announcement and not a commercial > >> >> advertisement, you'll be fine. One thing that we generally consider > >> >> "bad etiquette" as well would be only posting to this list to > >> >> announce > >> >> your product or project. Being a helpful contributor to the list in > >> >> general will buy you some Brownie Points[tm]. > >> > > >> > We get brownie points for helping? Crap, who's keeping track of mine? I > >> > had nooooooooo idea!! Can they be cashed in for treats? :B > >> > > >> > >> Oh man... 3312 msg > >> > >> http://marc.info/?a=106398348200006&r=1&w=4 > > > > > > Good ol' Marc, that guy keeps track of everything! > > > > Now... about those treats.... > > > > > > -- > > http://www.interjinn.com > > Application and Templating Framework for PHP > > > -- http://www.interjinn.com Application and Templating Framework for PHP