Red Hat answers Microsoft Azure with OpenShift dev cloud
Red Hat has launched a "platform-as-a-service" cloud called OpenShift, a service for building, hosting, and readily scaling applications. Think of it as a Microsoft Azure that isn't so Microsoftee.
Initially, it's aimed at developers looking to test applications. By the end of the year, the OpenShift platform cloud will be able to support production applications and offer the sort of service level agreements that businesses expect.
At the Red Hat Summit today, Red Hat's Isaac Roth, who carries title PaaS master, said that the work that system administrators and developers have to do to cobble together n-tier infrastructure – virtualized or physical, plus the compilers and their application frameworks – is a nightmare. "It's awful," said Roth. "I just want to write code. I just want to create Angry Birds."
