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Try Out Aptana Cloud for Free

Joyent has been working with the folks at Aptana for some time and we’re excited to mention that Aptana is now offering free trials of Aptana Cloud built on top of Joyent Accelerators.

Aptana Cloud is an excellent service that makes development, deployment and scaling of PHP, JavaScript, and Ruby on Rails applications as automagic as anything we’ve seen. Using Aptana Studio, the easy-to-use tool (based on Eclipse) available for Macintosh, Windows, and Linux, a developer literally writes code and simply deploys to the cloud by the click of a button. Scaling is simply a matter of dragging a slider to provide the application more resources. Source code control (and rollback), backup, remote edit and preview, database tools, ssh and sftp, staging environments, team tools, alerts, dashboards, stats and logs are all included and, in our opinion, beautifully implemented and designed.

And now you can try out Aptana Cloud for free for seven days. Please do.

Joyent and Mentez Announce Partnership for Facebook and OpenSocial Developers

• Joyent and Mentez are providing free on-demand infrastructure for 1000 Social Networking Applications in South Africa, Turkey, Mexico, Brazil, and Colombia
• Initial platforms supported will be Facebook and OpenSocial
• Developers sponsored by Mentez will have access to free business planning, internet-scale consulting services and Joyent’s unique on-demand infrastructure.
• Developers are given complimentary access to Joyent Accelerators next-generation virtual computers that can grow and multiply (or shrink and consolidate) depending on the real world demands faced by Web applications.
• Over 50 applications have been launched in Colombia with the next wave of applications to come from Mexico, Brazil, South Africa, and Turkey.

Quotes

Attributed to David Young, CEO, Joyent, Inc.

• “I’ve been very impressed with the way Mentez can identify and bring Facebook applications to market in these emerging markets.”
• Joyent is helping Facebook and Mentez build strong, thriving communities”.

Please contact Kristie Wells (kristie@joyent.com), Joyent, to arrange an interview and/or for additional quotes.

Attributed to Juan Franco, CEO of Mentez

• “Mentez chose to partner with Joyent because they are the leaders in building on-demand web-scale, Facebook-scale applications.”
• “15% of Facebook 3rd party application usage runs on Joyent.”

Please contact Lina Mahecha (lmahecha@mentez.com), Mentez, to arrange an interview and/or for additional quotes.

About Joyent, Inc.

Joyent provides on-demand applications, compute, storage, and services to teams around the world. The ease with which Joyent’s solution scales to meet increased server demands allows end-user, startups and developers to focus on their business instead of their servers. Founded in 2004 and headquartered in Marin County, California, Joyent serves customers around the globe in multiple languages and time zones. For more information, visit Joyent’s web site www.joyent.com.

• Joyent corporate website
• Del.icio.us Links on Joyent’s free hosting program
• Register for your free Joyent Accelerator.

About Mentez

Mentez’s primary objective is the promotion and development of successful internet applications, mainly geared towards social networks, with the potential to become tremendously popular and therefore economically valuable. Given the synergies and advantages, the main brainpower source of the company comes from developers and programmers in emerging regions and developing countries.

• Mentez corporate website.
• Application developers wanting to apply for Mentez sponsorship can contact Mentez through their website

Date of release: February 12, 2008

Want a chance at a year free on a Joyent 'L' Accelerator?

Sun has launched a new promotion for the month of September where the first 20 Sun Startup Essentials members who refer 3 new approved U.S. members by September 30th will receive one year of free hosting on a shiny Joyent ‘L’ Accelerator!

Here’s how it works:

1. Refer

Submit the names of the companies you’re referring here your chances of success by referring as many as you can! Sun will only contact these companies based on your referral if they apply and are approved for the program – no spam.

2. Persuade

Talk to them and make sure they apply by September 30th. To make it easy, we’ve included below an email you could send them, but you might want to personalize it.

3. Collect

If you are one of the first 20 to refer 3 new approved U.S. members, Sun will contact you by October 15th to receive your free year on the ‘L’ (or Pro as Dave likes to call it) Accelerator from Joyent.

Find out more, including terms and conditions.

Not currently a Startup Essentials member? Apply now and then start referring your friends!

———————-sample email to tell your friends——————————
Hi ,

I’ve plugged into a program for startups that lets us buy Sun gear (which can run the OS of your choice) at discounts of up to 60%. Plus you can get great deals on hosting through their partners as well as free technical assistance. It’s free to join and I bet you guys would be eligible – check it out at sun.com/startup.

Oh – and if you join before the end of September, I might be eligible for some free hosting services. What’s not to like?