Red Hat made the interesting times in which we live a little more interesting recently by announcing OpenShift Commons, “a place for companies using OpenShift to accelerate its success and adoption. To do this we’ll act as resources for each other, share best practices and provide a forum for peer-to-peer communication,” according to an official statement.
A total of 38 companies have committed to being part of the OpenShift Commons, including Cisco, Dell, and Docker. Others include Cloudera, Hortonworks, Iron.io, New Relic, and Zend.
The announcement is another move in the ongoing PaaS battle between OpenShift and Cloud Foundry, which got its Foundation last year.
A total of 38 companies have committed to being part of the OpenShift Commons, including Cisco, Dell, and Docker. Others include Cloudera, Hortonworks, Iron.io, New Relic, and Zend.
The announcement is another move in the ongoing PaaS battle between OpenShift and Cloud Foundry, which got its Foundation last year.
The two platforms are both OpenShift-friendly, and have an open-source nature that encourages community contributions and development.
The emerging, competing PaaS ecosystems seem to add strength to the intertwined notions of more aggressive cloud computing development in enterprises, the DevOps approach in leveraging the potential speed and flexibility of cloud, and keeping PaaS from being subsumed into major infrastructure (IaaS) providers such as Amazon and Salesforce.
Look for Jerome Pettazoni of Docker and Gordon Haff of Red Hat to cover much of the related ground in the world of PaaS at Cloud Expo & The DevOps Summit in New York June 9-11 at the Javits Center.