Stackato, the open-source private PaaS based on VMware’s Cloud Foundry, can now be deployed on HP Cloud Services. The latter is a cloud-powered platform designed for the enterprise, and is currently in private beta. Stackato itself left that stage and rolled out into public beta in November.

ActiveState’s agenda with Stackato is customization: to be able to address customers’ specifics needs, contrary to off-the-shelf alternatives. Making the platform as vendor-independent as possible is one of the ways the company is hoping to achieve that, so the latest addition marks yet another milestone. Stackato already supports Amazon EC2 and vSphere, and ActiveState stated that this will be extended to OpenStack as well in the near future. The offering is also multi-lingual, enabling customers to run apps written in Java, Python, Ruby, PHP, Perl, Node.js, Scala, and Clojure.

“There is no one-size-fits-all solution for enterprises that are demanding different options for their cloud infrastructure,” notes Bart Copeland, President and CEO of ActiveState. “Adding support for HP Cloud Services to Stackato reinforces our vision of providing the PaaS layer in the cloud that supports any underlying infrastructure, which will greatly benefit enterprise developers and IT/DevOps by giving them the options and flexibility they want.”

ActiveState made a number of pushes recently to further promote its goal. Last month it joined OASIS, an organization committed to the creation of a vendor-agnostic cloud standard. Before that, it launched a new version of Stackato called Micro Cloud that offers developers a free limited edition of the PaaS. Users can only deploy apps on a single node, but Micro provides a very good sneak peek into the advantages of the solution when used in larger scale, enterprise environments.