Red Hat Buys Makara, Adds PaaS to Its Cloud Mix

But unlike Windows Azure – or any other popular PaaS offering, for that matter – Makara isn’t relegated to running in any particular environment. Yes, the service is hosted atop Amazon EC2, but Makara customers can implement the platform atop pretty much any virtualized infrastructure. Che said that means Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization-, Xen, or VMware-based internal or public clouds, as well as internal IaaS software such as Eucalyptus or Cloud.com’s CloudStack. Makara can serve as the platform for hybrid cloud environments, too.
(Link: Red Hat Buys Makara, Adds PaaS to Its Cloud Mix)