Collaboration Brings Red Hat OpenShift Platform-as-a-Service to Local
Government Agencies Free-of-Charge
RALEIGH, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source
solutions, today announced a collaboration with Code for America (CfA),
a non-profit organization that partners with local governments to foster
civic innovation, focused on using technology to increase civic
engagement. The collaboration brings Red Hat's OpenShift
Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offering to CfA Fellows and partner
communities free-of-charge to help achieve CfA's goal of fostering
collaboration between city hall and city residents and innovative
problem solving through technology. With OpenShift, CfA Fellows will be
able to build, test, deploy and manage applications with the benefits of
ease of use, flexibility and scalability for their applications.
The pairing of OpenShift's rapid deployment capabilities with the
innovative applications built by CfA Fellows is a compelling mix for
moving civic technology capability forward. Rather than the municipal IT
staff or Fellows having to provision and maintain servers, the
application developers can focus on what they do best: writing code.
Code for America matches Red Hat's vision of community-powered
innovation, and open source technology gives civic groups the
opportunity to not only solve pain points for IT and developers, but
also improve service to end users.
The CfA Fellows will receive access to OpenShift free-of-charge for one
year. CfA's 2013 partner cities — Kansas City (Missouri and Kansas); Las
Vegas; Louisville, Ken.; New York; Oakland, Calif.; San Francisco; San
Mateo County, Calif.; South Bend, Ind.; and Summit County, Ohio — will
also receive an option of one additional year of free hosting and
services. In total, the value of Red Hat's contribution to CfA is worth
approximately $300,000 in hosting and service per year.
OpenShift offers developers a cloud application platform with a choice
of programming languages, frameworks and application lifecycle tools to
build their applications. With built-in platform support for Node.js,
Ruby, Python, PHP, Perl and Java and customizable cartridge
functionality, developers can also add additional languages that they
choose to develop in. OpenShift also supports many popular frameworks,
such as Zend, Java EE, Spring, Rails, Play and more.
Supporting Quotes:
Ashesh Badani, global leader, Cloud and OpenShift, Red Hat
"OpenShift offers an application platform in the cloud that manages the
stack so that developers can focus on their application code. As PaaS
becomes an increasingly important component in the adoption of cloud
across industries and geographies, it will become more crucial for
government agencies to be ahead of the curve. We are excited to be able
to offer the great benefits of our OpenShift PaaS to city governments
through our work with Code for America."
Mick Thompson, engineer in residence, Code for America
"Cities are changing. Across the country, we are seeing local
governments begin to leverage the phenomenal advances in modern
technology to be more responsive and connected to their residents.
Through this partnership with Red Hat, the Code for America Fellows will
be equipped to collaborate with our cities and counties and do even
more, creating sustainable, innovative civic technology."
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About Code for America
Code for America partners with local governments to foster civic
innovation. Through its Fellowship program, Code for America provides an
opportunity for the web generation to give back by embedding developers
and designers in city governments to collaborate with municipal leaders.
Through the Accelerator program Code for America supports disruptive
civic startups, and through the Brigade program Code for America
encourages civic participation by organizing local groups of civic
technologists to take action in their communities.
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