{"id":10917,"date":"2014-06-12T23:49:19","date_gmt":"2014-06-12T23:49:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2014\/jun\/13\/progress-software-and-bet-nodejs-after-modulus-acquisition\/"},"modified":"2014-06-12T23:49:19","modified_gmt":"2014-06-12T23:49:19","slug":"progress-software-and-the-bet-with-node-js-after-modulus-acquisition-appsworld","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/progress-software-and-the-bet-with-node-js-after-modulus-acquisition-appsworld\/","title":{"rendered":"Progress Software and the bet with Node.js after Modulus acquisition #AppsWorld"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Matt Robinson, VP technology at Progress Software, explains to <em>CloudTech<\/em> why the company is betting on Node.js with the acquisition of PaaS provider Modulus.<\/p>\n<p>The deal, announced earlier this week, aims to put progress in the enviable position of offering an industry-beating cloud, mobile, hybrid and on-premise development capability &ndash; and according to Robinson, the growth of Node.js, and JavaScript in general, makes this move a no-brainer.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Modulus is a real purpose built platform for Node developers,&rdquo; he explains. &ldquo;We talked to prospects and customers of Modulus and they all say similar feedback of &lsquo;it&rsquo;s just a natural experience for us to go in and deploy their applications and scale them really easily from a simple user interface.&rsquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It gives us a way to really attach ourselves to this very fast moving emergent technology,&rdquo; he adds.<\/p>\n<p>Robinson arrived at Progress after being CEO at rapid app development firm &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matt Robinson, VP technology at Progress Software, explains to CloudTech why the company is betting on Node.js with the acquisition of PaaS provider Modulus.<br \/>\nThe deal, announced earlier this week, aims to put progress in the enviable position of offeri&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10917\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}