Cloud Computing: Red Hat’s Stubbornness Will Keep OpenShift Alive

Grazed from InformationWeek. Author: Charles Babcock.

Is platform-as-a-service just a feature of infrastructure-as-a-service and destined to disappear? Citrix’s chief technology advocate Reuven Cohen made that argument recently, but I think it’s the other way around: Infrastructure may best be approached through a PaaS. I think there will several different platforms-as-a-service to help you launch your next-generation application on the cloud of your choice.

I say several because there’s been a debate recently about whether the successful launch of a Cloud Foundry Foundation amounted to the death knell of Red Hat’s OpenShift PaaS and the related Project Solum in OpenStack. Project Solum is suffering momentary suspended animation, as the dust settles around rival VMware/Pivotal’s announcement of a foundation for its Cloud Foundry project…

Some Solum backers, such as Rackspace, IBM, and Ubuntu, appear to be shifting allegiance. Joshua McKenty, CTO of Piston, appeared to be only stating the obvious when he bet $10 that Red Hat would be forced to abandon OpenShift and join Cloud Foundry by the end of the year. This isn’t the first time in the loosely aligned world of software partnerships that practical considerations have left high hopes unsupported…

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