As part of that effort, Red Hat will be co-locating a few of its engineers to Microsoft‘s headquarters in Redmond. The Red Hat Microsoft partnership includes multiple elements across the two companies’ product portfolios.
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“Customers asked for this, and Microsoft was willing to talk to us – and we were willing to talk to Microsoft”, he said. “We had a common goal, and that’s what will continue to drive us”.
Microsoft is teaming up with long-time open source rival Red Hat to help more enterprises make the move to cloud, through the roll-out of joint technology and support offerings.
Microsoft already supported Linux on Azure – support for a Linux variant known as CoreOS was announced previous year – but until now hadn’t reached a deal with the world’s biggest enterprise Linux vendor. The aim of the Microsoft Enterprise Cloud Alliance Program is to develop a strong eco-system of Enterprise Cloud Products delivering the best on premise, hosted and Public Cloud solutions in the industry.
“By working with Red Hat, we will address common enterprise, independent software supplier and developer needs for building, deploying and managing applications on Red Hat software across private and public clouds”.
Expanding on the preview of.NET on Linux announced by Microsoft in April, developers will have access to.NET technologies across Red Hat offerings, including Red Hat OpenShift and Red Hat Enterprise Linux, jointly backed by Microsoft and Red Hat.
“It’s a win-win”, Guthrie said during the webcast. In an FAQ posted by Red Hat, the company states, “Red Hat and Microsoft have agreed to a limited patent arrangement in connection with the commercial partnership for the benefit of mutual customers”. “It enables flexibility and choice for all developers, regardless of language”.
Guthrie said that there are no plans today for Azure to natively run OpenStack, but Cormier said that it would potentially be possible to bring Windows virtual machines and containers into the Red Hat OpenStack environment.
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Red Hat’s CloudForms IaaS offering will operate with Microsoft Azure and Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager, giving CloudForms customers the ability to manage Red Hat Enterprise Linux on both Hyper-V and Azure. As opposed to the Novell SUSE patent covenant, the Red Hat Microsoft partnership now provides for what Red Hat is referring to as a patent standstill in the FAQ. In the coming months, Red Hat system images will become available to buy on a pay-as-you-go basis through the Azure Marketplace.
