VMware has announced the availability of Micro Cloud Foundry, a condensed virtual image for its open source platform-as-a-service (PaaS). Micro Cloud Foundry makes it possible for developers to utilize the PaaS from their personal laptops without having to download and configure the numerous components of Cloud Foundry.
The offering supports Java on Spring, Ruby on Rails/Sinatra and Node.js, as well as MySQL, MongoDB Redis and Dynamic DNS. Micro Cloud Foundry is currently available as a free beta trial.