RedHat looks to mobile apps with purchase of FeedHenry

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story imageIn a move to compete on the mobility front, Red Hat Linux is acquiring FeedHenry for about US$82 million. The enterprise mobile application platform provider essentially makes it possible for Red Hat to support mobile application development in public and private environments.

From ConvergedDigest:
FeedHenry, which is based in Waterford, Ireland, helps enterprises to accelerate mobile app backend integration via private clouds, public clouds, and on-premises systems with connectors and plug-ins to common enterprise systems such as salesforce.com, SAP, Oracle, etc. The FeedHenry platform offers developers the flexibility to create native (Android, iOS, Windows Phone and Blackberry), hybrid, HTML5 or web apps. The platform supports a wide variety of popular toolkits including native SDKs, hybrid Apache Cordova, HTML5 and Titanium, as well as frameworks such as Xamarin, Sencha Touch, and other JavaScript frameworks.

FeedHenry was founded in 2010 as a spin out from the Telecommunications Software and Systems Group at the Waterford Institute of Technology.
Seems like good news for mobile platforms based on FOSS technologies. Or is this just RedHat trying to stay relevant in a world where operating systems matter less than web services and mobile access?

Copyright? (Score: 0)

by Anonymous Coward on 2014-09-23 13:30 (#2STY)

So the suspiciously clipart-looking "CIO" on the front page turns out to be some guy named Shimon Haber who seems to have NOTHING to do with this company as per their "leadership" page. His photo has only appeared on "Funny or Die". Strange they didn't feel confident putting their own people on the front page, and I hope they had permission to use Haber's photo.

Also, am I the only one who thought of the SNL "clownpenis.fart" thing upon seeing the desperate bottom-barrel domain name?
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