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2008-04-28

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Prepares to add platform-as-a-service to its IDE offerings for online application development support.

SAN FRANCISCO—As the application development forecast continues to get more “cloudy,” Aptana will break out its own solution in a few weeks.

The startup, which focuses on delivering infrastructure software for Web developers, plans to release Aptana Cloud, a platform-as-a-service offering for developers to build Web applications based on open-source technology.

Kevin Hakman, director of product marketing at Aptana, said the company is building on the popularity of its open-source Web development IDE (integrated development environment), Aptana Studio, to deliver its cloud offering. Hakman spoke with eWEEK at the Web 2.0 Expo here April 25.

Hakman said Aptana Studio is continuing to pick up steam, as it is poised to surpass 1.5 million downloads by the end of April. And as Aptana Jaxer, an open-source AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and X M L) server released earlier this year continues to gain users, Aptana has unveiled Aptana Cloud, the next aspect of its strategy aimed at winning over Web developers who use scripting languages, Hakman said.

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