A screenshot of the Cloudfoundry.org site, the home for the Cloud Foundry community (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Virtualization and cloud computing software developer VMware ( www.vmware.com ) announced on Tuesday that it has released a new open source platform for building cloud-based application development environments, along the lines of Microsoft’s Windows Azure, or Google’s App Engine, in an apparent effort to create the standard service providers will use to create platform-as-a-service clouds that compete with those services. VMware’s Cloud Foundry project, as the code base is called, was launched by the company today at a live event led by CEO Paul Maritz, and attended by thousands of developers, with a long list of speakers.






