[oliwarner]

Not developing new features means firing the engineering team, supporting it with a skeleton crew of the cheapest available labour. The press release was refreshingly honest about this, at least in CEO-speak.

"Not dead" might be a technical truth, but "on life support" would be my analogy. As soon as it stops being profitable, or the owner wants to push users of to a more profitable platform, they'll pull the plug.

In terms of Ops planning, Heroku is a toxic target platform now, full of risk (more than it was before, at any rate). I wouldn't touch it for a new project and would definitely have plans in place to move anything I have there off.