As 2014 gets underway, one of the biggest stories in all of open source has to be the transformation going on at Red Hat as it moves from being squarely Linux-focused to becoming a big player in the cloud computing space. As The Register notes, the company has “scraped up its Linux, virtualization, OpenStack and cloud management businesses into a new infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) unit.”
The company has also created an applications platform group responsible for JBoss and OpenShift. But the real ace-in-the-hole is that Red Hat has a far reaching deal with Dell in which Dell will effectively become an OEM for Red Hat’s Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform, by selling systems that run it.
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