Cloud Computing: Red Hat to take on Microsoft with .NET hosted service
March 6, 2014
Grazed from ITWorld. Author: Joab Jackson.
Challenging Microsoft’s Windows Azure on its own turf, Red Hat is ramping up services that would offer Microsoft .NET and SQL Server capabilities on its OpenShift platform as a service (PaaS). Code to enable the Microsoft services is being provided by Uhuru Software, a company started by a number of former Microsoft executives and engineers that specializes in rendering Microsoft software as cloud services.
The Microsoft services will not be available immediately, and Red Hat has not set a date for when the capabilities will be ready, either on OpenShift itself, or as part of OpenShift Enterprise, a package for running OpenShift services within an enterprise, said Joe Fernandes, who leads product management for OpenShift…
When it does go live, customers of Red Hat’s OpenShift PaaS will be able to use copies, or "cartridges" in Red Hat’s parlance, of the Microsoft .NET runtime and Microsoft SQL Server database system. Both will run on top of Windows Server. Windows will run either as a virtual machine, or directly on the servers natively. Administrators can interact with the Microsoft cartridges through a standard command line SSH (Secure Shell)…
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