Red Hat's Linux Platform as a Service (PaaS) OpenShift Online Makes Commercial Debut

Open source software provider Red Hat, Inc. (RHT) has announced immediate commercial availability it's open source-based public platform-as-a-service (PaaS) cloud offering OpenShift Online. Moving from beta to commercial availability gives OpenShift Online’s users and developers access to Red Hat’s global support services. What else will available to users and developers through this offering? We'll reveal the details.

The open source-based solution provides developers with a platform to build, launch, and host applications in the public cloud. The offering automates provisioning, management and scaling of applications. Red Hat says that this automation lets developers to focus on writing code instead. OpenShift supports a range of languages, including Java, Ruby, PHP, Python, Node.js, and Perl.

OpenShift Online runs on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and the SELinux subsystem. The solution was built from the OpenShift Origin open source project. Third-party extensions are available or users can build their own through OpenShift’s extensible, pluggable cartridge framework.

Red Hat said that this solution makes it one of the few vendors to to offer a "full family of open PaaS solutions." These solutions include OpenShift Origin, the open source PaaS project; OpenShift Online, a commercial public PaaS offering; and OpenShift Enterprise, an on-premise private PaaS product.

Red Hat Cloud and Open Shift General Manager Ashesh Badani said in his prepared remarks that developers want to focus more on coding, less on system administration.

"Our new OpenShift Online brings enterprise-grade services to public PaaS, and gives Red Hat the industry’s most complete PaaS portfolio," he added.

OpenShift Online by Red Hat will be available in North America beginning June 11, 2013 and in Europe the following week, with pricing starting as low as $20.00 per month. A payment option will be available for Euros. The platform will roll out to other countries in the upcoming months.

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