What do you do when you're king of the Linux server mountain and you want more? In Red Hat's case, you develop a new mobile software stack, Red Hat Mobile Application Platform (RHMAP), and you partner up with the world's top Android smartphone vendor, Samsung.
According to the companies' joint announcement, Samsung Business Services and Red Hat plan to deliver:
All this is being built around Red Hat's new Red Hat Mobile Application Platform. This platform incorporates technology from Red Hat's October 2014 acquisition of FeedHenry, an enterprise mobile application platform provider with Red Hat's JBoss Middleware and OpenShift Platform as a Service (PaaS) portfolio.
RHMAP has an open and extensible architecture based on Node.js for client and server side mobile app development. The platform offers developers the flexibility to create native (Android, iOS, Windows Phone and Blackberry), hybrid, HTML5, or web apps. The platform also supports a wide variety of toolkits including native Software Development Kits (SDKs), hybrid Apache Cordova, HTML5 and Titanium, as well as frameworks such as Xamarin, Sencha Touch, and other JavaScript frameworks. It simplifies back-end integration to business systems, speeding app delivery with reusable connectors and plug-ins to common enterprise systems such as salesforce.com, SAP, Oracle and, of course, JBoss.
Red Hat Mobile Application Platform's goal is to "simplify and accelerate the development, integration, deployment, and management of mobile solutions by allowing collaboration across development teams, such as front-end application developers, back-end IT integration, and DevOps teams."
At this time, this is a beta project. The developer offering is available on Red Hat's public cloud application development and hosting environment: OpenShift Online. Full support for the RHMAP in production environments via OpenShift Enterprise is planned for the coming year.
Red Hat also announced that it will establish an open-source upstream project, FeedHenry, for RHMAP. This project will open its door in 2016.
In a statement, Craig Muzilla, Red Hat's senior vice president of Application Platforms Business, said, "Effective and successful enterprise mobility strategies take into account both platforms and devices, and how they come together to help enable powerful end-to-end mobile solutions. We're excited to join with Samsung in not only delivering a new generation of mobile solutions for the enterprise, but in empowering customers to achieve new levels of innovation in mobile."
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