By publishing the platform-as-a-service code as open source, Red Hat hopes to encourage community development of the young cloud platform, and has outlined ways the PaaS could be bolted on top of OpenStack to help this ( ZDNet UK – Cloud )
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Mentor Graphics Corporation (NASDAQ:MENT) is again simplifying Linux and open source development with the release of its next generation Mentor® Embedded Linux platform. The Mentor Embedded Linux platform includes support for the Yocto Project, an open source collaborative project established by The Linux Foundation. By leveraging the Yocto Project, the Mentor Embedded Linux platform helps …
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Appolicious – Google’s winning smartphone strategy was to make Android open source and invite anyone and everyone to create a device for their mobile platform. It worked, as HTC, Motorola and others jumped on the opportunity to create smartphones to rival the iPhone. However, the market was reset when Apple released the iPad. Yet another game-changer, the iPad set new standards for tablets, and is already prepping for a third generation release. All the while, Google’s been building an Android platform designed for tablets, eventually releasing Android 4. …
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Marvell announced an education platform combining its Plug Computer, Arch Linux, and software developed in collaboration with Stanford University.
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Red Hat’s OpenShift platform as a service offering has been in public beta for a while now. It offers a fairly simple way for people to jumpstart “cloud” development efforts by abstracting out all the messy business of setting up application and database servers. Instead, you simply publish your source code to OpenShift, and their platform does the rest. Supported languages are those used …
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