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Heroku CEO Bob Wise has left Salesforce’s cloud platform as a service (PaaS). A Salesforce spokesperson confirmed the news to TechCrunch in an email statement.
“Bob Wise has left Salesforce for his next career move,” the spokesperson said. “We appreciate everything Bob has done for Salesforce and Heroku and wish him well.”
Bob Wise joins Heroku as GM from Amazon Web Services, where he was GM of Kubernetes and head of the Open Source Office. Wise will be promoted to CEO of Heroku in 2023, According to To his LinkedIn profile.
Wise’s ascension to CEO came more than a decade after Salesforce acquired Heroku for $212 million in cash. The platform allows programmers to build, run, and scale applications across a number of programming languages, including Java, PHP, and Go.
Heroku claims on its website that it has been used to develop more than 13 million applications to date.
Under Salesforce and Wise, Heroku has faced a number of setbacks, including a security breach where attackers were able to obtain an access token for a Heroku account that was used for automation purposes.
In August 2022, Heroku announced that its free plans would be discontinued, citing fraud and abuse as reasons for the change. Some users were understandably unhappy – and made their opinions known Social media.
“Our product, engineering, and security teams put in an extraordinary amount of effort to manage fraud and abuse of Heroku’s free product plans,” Wise said in a blog post at the time. “We will continue to provide low-cost solutions for computing and data resources.”
Competition in the PaaS sector has become fiercer in recent years, with companies like Porter, Railway, Render, Fly.io, and Clever Cloud vying for a slice of Heroku’s business with compelling capabilities and tools. Wise has made efforts to reach out to the developer community, publishing a public roadmap for Heroku features and asking for suggestions for improvements.
His departure will certainly have an impact on Heroku’s efforts to regain market share. Salesforce has not yet announced plans for the replacement.
Relatedly, Heroku still is without The CPO returns after Andy Fawcett returns to the UK to take up the role of VP of Developer Relations.
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