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Today, Red Hat and Microsoft announced a partnership to provide greater choice and flexibility deploying Red Hat solutions on Microsoft Azure. As a key component of today’s announcement, Microsoft is offering Red Hat Enterprise Linux as the preferred choice for enterprise Linux workloads on Microsoft Azure. Another area of the partnership is in expanding the use of .NET in Red Hat's products, including the OpenShift Enterprise platform-as-a-service offering.
Paul Cormier, Red Hat's president of Products and Technologies, released a blog posting today about this partnership. From the blog:
Both Red Hat and Microsoft are key players in this new, hybrid cloud reality. Today, it is incredibly likely that where you once found “Red Hat shops” and “Microsoft shops,” you’ll find heterogeneous environments that include solutions from both companies. We heard from customers and partners that they wanted our solutions to work together - with consistent APIs, frameworks, management, and platforms. They not only wanted Red Hat offerings on Microsoft Azure, they wanted to be able to build .NET applications on infrastructure powered by Red Hat Enterprise Linux, including OpenShift, Red Hat Enterprise Linux Atomic Host, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform.
As customers move to a microservices architecture, I see a consistent enterprise platform and APIs for certified applications and container portability across physical, virtual, and private and public clouds becoming that much more important. Customers will want to be able to choose Microsoft Windows for Windows containers, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux Atomic Host and OpenShift for certified Red Hat Enterprise Linux containers unified by the common .NET framework.
(Score: 2) by tibman on Thursday November 05 2015, @08:01PM
A generation ago linux didn't even exist : ) Hell, i don't think there was even a free/open OS on the planet in 1990 or a website to talk about them on?
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 05 2015, @08:58PM
Eh, depends on what you call a "generation." I was thinking "20 years" or so.
If only I could amend my post!
(Score: 2) by tibman on Thursday November 05 2015, @09:17PM
sorry, i was looking at 25 but i know what you meant : ) RedHat jumping into a relationship with Microsoft ten or more years ago would have been huge.
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(Score: 1) by Alias on Friday November 06 2015, @05:41AM
I think an even bigger sign of the times is that they actually had the balls to announce this partnership that, (to anyone who has been paying attention,) has been going on for a least a couple years already. Mono, for example, was a MS-instigated project. Very few people in the open source world ever seriously cared about Mono, those that do now are transplants. I bring up Mono because it has been around for longer than systemd. When Miguel De Icaza sold out to the mighty MS, I see now, in retrospect, that it was just the tip of the iceberg.
(Score: 2) by tibman on Friday November 06 2015, @06:04AM
Yeah, mono never made sense to me. There was no immediate benefit to making it. Almost as if someone wanted a weapon to use against java more than anything else.
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(Score: 1) by Alias on Friday November 06 2015, @06:11AM
Specifically, a weapon to use against Java on Linux, which was growing as the platform of choice for Java/XML business stuff. .NET already existed on Windows.