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You can read the full article written by Joe Fernandes at - OpenShift blog  on why RedHat chose not to join CloudFoundry Foundation. My Comments (given the original blog post is closed for comments, I decided to write my own comments). I have no issues with RedHat not joining CloudFoundry. It is their freedom of choice as to which foundations they join. However I was slightly disappointed in some of the comments/notes by the writer. Of course one could argue, that it is the freedom to write what you like :-).  " Cloud Foundry commercial vendors like Pivotal and IBM should recognize that the path to enterprise success is on Red Hat Enterprise Linux rather than Ubuntu and thus certify Cloud Foundry on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and eventually Red Hat Enterprise Linux Atomic Host." If RedHat was keen to help, shouldn't you join the foundation and get CF certified on RedHat Enterprise Linux, rather than waiting for the vendors such as IBM, Pivotal to come forwa...

There is no doubt that Open Source is leading innovation in Cloud Technologies. However one cannot go without noticing the attention generated for the following three Open Source projects. Interestingly these projects are getting the support from previously not so Open Source friendly companies such as Microsoft. However it is also interesting to hear that Amazon is not jumping on them in a big way yet ???  What are these projects? Docker Going by the definition from Docker website, "Docker is an open platform for developers and sysadmins to build, ship, and run distributed applications. Consisting of Docker Engine, a portable, lightweight runtime and packaging tool, and Docker Hub, a cloud service for sharing applications and automating workflows, Docker enables apps to be quickly assembled from components and eliminates the friction between development, QA, and production environments. As a result, IT can ship faster and run the same app, unchanged, on laptops, data cen...