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I am very excited to report that, after months of under-the-radar development, today we are launching the Makara Cloud Application Platform, Developer Beta today. This software enables developers to take their existing Tomcat, JBoss or PHP applications and get them running in minutes on a long list of supported cloud environments: public or private, external or internal. Best of all, hairy details such as clustering, management, and monitoring are already built-in. Developers today want to deploy, scale and manage their applications without being held up by provisioning and deployment.

Last month, I was fortunate enough to attend the International PHP Conference 2009 in Karlsruhe, Germany.  I was invited to present on our open-source project, and wound up joining a cloud computing panel with a number of luminaries in the field.  After these talks I was able to walk around and speak with many of the conference-goers candidly outside of the session environment.

Great post by SugarCRM's Martin Schneider discussing how SugarCRM and Makara can work together to "make the open cloud easy".
 
We think Martin's take is dead on:
  

 
We’re here at ZendCon talking to enterprise PHP developers about deploying applications in the cloud. We’ll keep you posted on how the show is going, but if you’re in San Jose, drop by the Convention Center and see us! We’re giving demos in between sessions. 
 
Somebody even brought in a boatload of those mini Snickers bars, and we want to share. We’re booth 320.