Heroku Chief Opens the Door to More Processes, Bigger Ecosystem, Less Amazon

In an interview with ReadWriteWeb, the man who led the Heroku PaaS platform to prominence – and who continues to lead it as Executive Vice President of Salesforce – says that as his platform expands, it could certainly penetrate old barriers. One such barrier could be the ribbon, if you will, in front of a “Heroku apps store.” Another is the perimeter of the cloud that has supported it to date, Amazon EC2.

“Amazon works great as a platform for Heroku and for its customers. Every day we are expanding how much we run on Amazon, because our services are expanding so quickly,” says Salesforce’s Byron Sebastian. He’s referring to Heroku’s expansion earlier this month of its Postgres database services, with two new, smaller tiers at $50 (Crane) and $100 (Kappa) per month, as well as an entirely new process model called Cedar – rolled out Wednesday – that adds the ability to run “one-off” processes against any application being run on the platform.