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Today Heroku, a Ruby platform-as-a-service which was recently acquired by Salesforce.com, disclosed a serious security issue. The vulnerability has been fixed, and there is no evidence that it was ever exploited.

Earlier this week, NodeFu had its databases deleted when admins revealed its CouchOne password on Github. Missteps by PaaS providers leave customers at risk and jeopardize the reputation of the public cloud.

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Salesforce.com announced this morning that it will buy Ruby application platform provider Heroku for $212 million. Heroku will compliment Salesforce.com's VMForce, a hosted plafform for Java. Ruby is one of the fastest growing programming languages on the web, and Heroku has been seeing rapid growth. In November of last year the company hosted 40,000 applications. Today, according to Salesforce.com's announcement, it hosts over 105,000 applications.