AWS acquires collaborative coding company Cloud9 IDE
Summary
Cloud9 IDE, a startup that offers a cloud-based integrated development environment (IDE) in which developers can quickly start building applications and collaborate with others, announced today that it has been acquired by public cloud market leader Amazon Web Services. “In the meantime, you’ll still be able to depend on and continue to invest safely in Cloud9,” Ruben Daniels, cofounder and CEO of the startup, wrote in a blog post. “It’s still business as usual — we’ll continue to work with our Ace Open Source community and to provide our innovative services to you and our hundreds of thousands of customers worldwide. But the cloud IDE concept effectively just got the seal of approval from a company that many developers trust for hosting their applications. The application lets users import hosted source code and start with templates like C++, Django, Node.js, HTML5, Python, Ruby, WordPress, or just an empty Ubuntu virtual machine.