Salesforce is stopping sales of enterprise accounts for Heroku, a platform that provides a cloud-based application development environment, and is reducing feature updates, SiliconANGLE reported on Thursday.
Nitin Bhat (니틴 바트), Heroku’s head of product, said in a blog post: "We will continue security and reliability updates, but will scale back new feature development."
Heroku began in 2007 as a cloud platform for Ruby applications and was acquired by Salesforce in 2011 for $212 million. It later grew by supporting various programming languages, but Salesforce’s strategy appears to have changed as competition in the cloud market has intensified.
Competition has heated up as major cloud companies such as Microsoft, Amazon and Google offer platforms similar to Heroku, SiliconANGLE reported. It also said Salesforce has launched its AI agent-building tool, "Agent Builder", overlapping with some Heroku functions.
Bhat said: "We are adjusting product and engineering investment to focus on AI and security." Existing Heroku enterprise account users can continue to use the service, and customer support and billing systems will remain unchanged.
Chi-gyu Hwang
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