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[VIDEO] Red Hat’s OpenShift PaaS vs. Pivotal’s CloudFoundry

Nov 20, 2014
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Paul Cormier, EVP and President, Product and Technologies at Red Hat is not what anyone would call a CloudFoundry fan. In a video interview with Datamation, Cormier detailed his views on the PaaS competition.

“CloudFoundry has the potential to be Unix all over again,” Cormier said.

In the Unix market, fragmentation has been an issue for decades. Cormier noted that if you look at the CloudFoundry market there are multiple vendors that make their own flavors of CloudFoundry based platforms.

“I think it will be very difficult for applications to be compatible across the vendors’ different variations of CloudFoundry,” Cormier said.

Read the full story at Datamation:
Red Hat Calls CloudFoundry the Unix of the Cloud [VIDEO]

Sean Michael Kerner is a senior editor at InternetNews.com. Follow him on Twitter @TechJournalist.

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