The Hatters are aiming to be the envy of its rivals in the cloud.
Red Hat is continuing to expand its embrace of cloud computing and services with the acquisition of Silicon Valley startup Codenvy, a developer on cloud-on-demand tools and services.
Financial terms weren’t disclosed. The deal was announced early Wednesday.
[VIDEO: Watch a tutorial about Codenvy at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yaBZviac8U ]
“With the acquisition we plan to incorporate Codenvy into future developer tooling built for Red Hat OpenShift, Red Hat’s award-winning container application platform,” wrote Harry Mower, senior director of Developer Programs at Red Hat, in a blog post. “This further enhances OpenShift’s developer experience and will enable developers to create container based applications across private and public clouds.”
Codenvy, which launched in 2013, is best known for its Eclipse Che “cloud kernel” technology, which, like Red Hat, is open source. Mower notes that Eclipse Che has grown rapidly with developers swarming to embrace it. And Red Hat is acquiring a company it knows very well.
“At last year’s Red Hat Summit in San Francisco, we talked about how Eclipse Che was becoming an important part of our developer tools strategy,” Mower explained. “A few weeks ago, you saw that come to life with the introduction of OpenShift.io, which includes Eclipse Che.”
Red Hat is aggressively driving OpenShift.io which is a new hosted development offering for the creation of so-called “hybrid cloud” services utilizing OpenShift.
The Hatters say Codenvy enables “developers to easily create modern container-based applications.”
“Codenvy is much more than a cloud IDE [integrated development platform],” Mower added. “At the heart of Codenvy’s technology is a workspace management system that allows developers to get up and running instantly without the need to setup a local development environment.
“This container-based workspace approach reduces the time it takes developers to get started and minimizes the risk of inconsistencies between development and production environments. By extending this workspace management technology and incorporating it into our developer tools and platforms, we help ensure that every developer is working with the correct technology stacks, across the entire team, with the click of a button.”
Red Hat also recently announced a partnership with IBM for new open-source cloud development efforts.
And at its recent Summit in Boston, the cloud was a recurring theme.
