Red Hat has released a public preview of its OpenStack IaaS distribution a couple of weeks after Rackspace got the ball rolling and went production with the open source stuff on its own public cloud.
Red Hat, the third-biggest contributor to the current Essex release, is being a bit more circumspect about it. Its stuff is unsupported at this point.
It says it’s making sure the thing is enterprise-worthy, stable and certified apropos of introducing it as an enterprise subscription product. Whether Essex meets those criteria is reportedly debatable but Red Hat maintains that it will be the “industry’s only enterprise-ready OpenStack distribution.”