OpenStack PaaS gets interesting with Ubuntu, Cloud Foundry project
November 5, 2013
Grazed from ITWorld. Author: Nancy Gohring.
The OpenStack PaaS market is heating up, with Ubuntu teaming up with Pivotal on a version of Cloud Foundry for OpenStack. Canonical’s founder Mark Shuttleworth made the announcement today in Hong Kong at the OpenStack Summit. You can watch a replay of his keynote online. “I’m really pleased to announce that Pivotal and Canonical will worth together to make the experience of Cloud Foundry on OpenStack absolutely fantastic,” he said.
But here’s where things get interesting. Canonical says it won’t only work on creating Cloud Foundry PaaS for Ubuntu clouds. “If there are vendors in the room who have OpenStack implementations, we’d like to certify and test on yours as well. This is not just for Ubuntu,” he said…
That might be a stretch as other OpenStack implementations might not be keen to work with a competitor to make sure that Cloud Foundry works well on their implementation. The announcement is particularly interesting as it follows the recent creation of Project Solum, spearheaded by Rackspace. Solum aims to create an OpenStack PaaS platform, which would be in competition to a Cloud Foundry PaaS running on OpenStack…
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