Red Hat intros PaaS for open source developers

RALEIGH, USA: Red Hat, Inc., open source solution provider has recently announced the availability of OpenShift, a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) for developers who build on open source. 

Red Hat OpenShift redefines the PaaS market by providing a new level of choice in languages, frameworks and clouds for developers to build, test, run and manage their applications, said a press release. 

Built on Red Hat’s JBoss expertise, OpenShift supports Java EE 6, extending the capabilities of PaaS to richer and more demanding applications. 

Brian Stevens, vice president, Engineering and CTO at Red Hat said, "Developers turn to open source for innovation and choice.  With OpenShift, we deliver the first Platform-as-a-Service that meets those needs."

“By providing the broadest platform and choice of languages, frameworks and supported cloud providers, OpenShift gives developers the cloud destination they’ve been dreaming of,” added Stevens

According to the release, Red Hat OpenShift supports development frameworks for Java, Python, PHP and Ruby, including Spring, Seam, Weld, CDI, Rails, Rack, Symfony, Zend Framework, Twisted, Django and Java EE. 

"Cloud computing is starting to change the way open source developers are writing and delivering applications," said Judith Hurwitz, president and CEO at Hurwitz and Associates.

"Therefore the market for platform-as-a-service is beginning to expand at a rapid pace. Red Hat's OpenShift helps developers by providing access to a variety of development and deployment options," added Hurwitz.

The release further added that OpenShift includes both SQL and NoSQL data stores and a distributed file system.

By building on the Deltacloud cloud interoperability standard, OpenShift is designed to allow developers to run their applications on any supported Red Hat Certified Public Cloud Provider, eliminating the lock-in associated with first-generation PaaS vendors.