Red Hat crits MS cloud approach

Speaking at the Red Hat Summit in Boston last week, Scott Crenshaw, VP and GM of the cloud business unit at Red Hat, took some jabs at Microsoft and its own cloud strategy, writes The Register.

"Microsoft has taken an approach to the cloud, not surprisingly, that is very proprietary in nature as it seeks to lock in its customers," said Crenshaw. "Red Hat's roots are open in nature - all open, all open source, very different."

Crenshaw correctly pointed out that while there will be many clouds, companies looking to buy capacity on public clouds some day will want to virtualise and run their applications on private clouds first and then know that, without retooling their applications, they can be ported to public clouds.

Infor has unveiled a product integration strategy and strategic partnership that will see the company standardise its ERP offerings on several Microsoft software infrastructure technologies, reports Managing Automation.

Infor said it will standardise on a wide range of Microsoft technologies, including Silverlight graphical user interface tools, SharePoint portal tools, the Microsoft SQL Server database platform, its reporting services for business intelligence and analytics, Single Sign-On tools, and Windows Server operating system.

At the same time, Infor announced plans to roll-out Infor ION, an enterprise integration architecture that will tie together its applications using a loosely coupled document sharing approach.

Open source enterprise SOA vendor WSO2 this week unveiled WSO2 Business Rules Server, for building business rules within SOA, says Network World.

Based on the open source Drools business rules management system, the product separates business logic from infrastructure code.

Business rules can be encapsulated in more accessible forms so that rules are accurate and represent current reflections of business needs, WSO2 said. Drools developers can integrate rules into SOA implementations.