[pluma]

I'm not sure why, but I was under the impression that Heroku had been shut down months ago.

I may have been thinking of Nodejitsu (which has been acquired by GoDaddy). Did Heroku change owners at some point or am I imagining things?

[watson]

Heroku was bought by Salesforce in 2010: https://techcrunch.com/2010/12/08/breaking-salesforce-buys-h...

[0xADADA]

Heroku was acquired by SalesForce, and like everything Salesforce touches, it'll slowly descend into a steaming pile of

[watson]

So far it seems that Salesforce is leaving them alone to run their own business

[mpeg]

They're one of the only acquisitions that have been kept running pretty much the same way.

There was no integration with force.com or anything like that. I don't think they're even colocated in SFDC datacenters, I think they still run on AWS

[mpeg]

Heroku has been owned by Salesforce since 2010, and it's very loved in the SFDC family.

No chance of it shutting down anytime soon.

[bbgm]

Heroku was acquired by Salesforce in 2010.