Red Hat Sets Release Date For OpenShift Source

Red Hat is going to sponsor the Open Cloud Conference presented by CloudCamps, taking place in Sunnyvale, California from 30 April through 3 May 2012. On the opening day of the event, the company will host developer workshops focused on Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), mobile and Java development in the cloud. During the conference, Red Hat also plans to begin open sourcing its Platform-as-a-Service system (PaaS), OpenShift.
OpenShift was built with a number of open source technologies such as JBoss Application Server as well as technologies that Red Hat acquired from its acquisition of Makara in November 2010.
“Red Hat has taken a leadership role in the Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) space since the debut of our OpenShift platform in May 2011. As OpenShift has added new functionality, languages and flexibility for developers, we’ve continued to evolve our PaaS strategy to address the needs of our users and customers,” said Scott Crenshaw, vice president and general manager--cloud business unit at Red Hat. “We see the next wave in PaaS as focused on hybrid PaaS strategies and Red Hat is continuing to address this approach through the evolution of our OpenShift platform for both developers and the enterprise.”