This document summarizes and compares several online development environments: Nitrous, Codio, Koding, and Cloud9. It finds that Nitrous is the best fit overall as it allows users to create and share cloud virtual machines while also using local tools through the Atom text editor plugin, and provides templates for common languages and frameworks. While the others have advantages like configuration sharing for Koding or being designed for teaching for Codio, they lack the ability to use local tools like Nitrous or share built machines like Koding.

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2. Our criteria
● Simple to use
● Create once and share
● Ability to use local dev tools
● Templates for common tools and frameworks (nodejs, wordpress etc)
● Friendly interface and process so PM can start environment for new project

3. Let’s the Google started!

4. Solutions
Nitrous
Codio
Koding.com
Cloud9

5. No magic bullet found...

6. Let’s compare: Nitrous
● Atom plugin
● Intuitive setup
● Cloud editor

7. Let’s compare: Koding
● YML config
● Ability to share only configuration
of machines
● Console tools
● Ability to mount remote VM
directories

8. Let’s compare: Codio
● Designed for teaching
computer science
● Preconfigured stacks
● Web IDE

9. Let’s compare: Cloud9
● Primary Web IDE
● lacks ability to use local tools
● Sharing workspaces

10. Summary
● Koding - lacks ability to share built machines
● Codio - not really tool for development
● Cloud9 - sometimes it’s good to use local tools
● Nitrous - local tools limited to atom.io

11. Our best fit
drumroll… Nitrous!
● create and share cloud VMs
● use of local tool, though limited to Atom
● multiple templates for languages
and frameworks

12. Questions?