svn commit: r914663 - in /websites/staging/gora/trunk/content: ./ about.html

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Author: buildbot
Date: Tue Jul  1 21:21:36 2014
New Revision: 914663

Log:
Staging update by buildbot for gora

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    websites/staging/gora/trunk/content/about.html

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@@ -179,8 +179,22 @@ for big data. The roadmap of Gora can be
   <a href="http://hadoop.apache.org/docs/stable/mapred_tutorial.html">MapReduce</a> (<a href="http://hadoop.apache.org">Apache Hadoop&trade;</a>) 
   support for data in the data store.</li>
 </ul>
+<h2 id="who-is-gora-for">Who is Gora For?</h2>
+<p>Gora is a framework primarily aimed towards</p>
+<ul>
+<li><b>Hands on Developers</b> required to deal with data volumes which justify Big Data storage solutions classified under
+  the NoSQL umbrella.</li>
+<li>Developers who seek a <b>Java friendly (REST-style) API</a> for mapping Java objects to and from
+  NoSQL technologies.</li>
+<li><b>Development and/or Testing Engineers</b> looking to quickly set up and deploy applications on top of
+  Big Data storage mediums. This includes testing how applications are suited to underlying data stores
+  as data stores are easily interchanged. </li>
+<li>Developers interested in <b>technology agnostic storage methods</a> for addressing data storage tasks.</li>
+<li><b>Decision Makers</b> looking to implement a flexible storage framework under the <a href="http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0">most liberal
+  open source license available</a>.</li>
+</ul>
 <h2 id="background">Background</h2>
-<p>ORM stands for Object Relation Mapping. It is a technology which abstacts the persistency layer 
+<p><b>ORM</b> stands for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object-relational_mapping">Object Relation Mapping</a>. It is a technology which abstacts the persistency layer 
 (mostly Relational Databases) so that plain domain level objects can be used, without the cumbersome 
 effort to save/load the data to and from the database. Gora differs from current solutions in that:</p>
 <ul>