Membership advances Red Hat's investment in Node.js as a strategic
technology for mobile, web, and IoT applications
RALEIGH, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source
solutions, today announced that it has joined the Node.js Foundation as
a Platinum member, underscoring its commitment to developers, Node.js,
and open source collaboration. As a Platinum member of the Foundation,
Red Hat will have a seat on the Node.js Foundation Board of Directors
and marketing committee, collaborating with other members to help
promote and accelerate the development of the Node.js project and
technology.
Node.js is an open source, server-side JavaScript runtime that has seen
greater growth and adoption in enterprises over the last few years.
Node.js has become an important technology for developers building high
performance, low latency applications for web, mobile, and Internet of
Things (IoT). The Node.js Foundation is represented by a broad spectrum
of collaborators from software vendors, ISVs, end customers, and
individual developers.
Established in June 2015 and run as a Linux Foundation collaborative
project, the Node.js Foundation provides independent oversight over the
adoption, development, and long-term stewardship of the Node.js project.
The Foundation's open governance model and community collaboration
aligns with Red Hat's dedication to transparency, openness, and
community-powered innovation.
As a growing server-side framework for developers, Node.js plays an
important role in Red Hat technologies that support mobile application
development, such as the Red
Hat Mobile Application Platform, and is available in OpenShift
by Red Hat and Red
Hat Software Collections.
Supporting Quotes
Rich Sharples, senior director, Product Management, Red Hat
"We are always mindful where we invest our resources and focus our
efforts, and believe the Node.js Foundation has an important role to
play in helping to make Node.js successful, as well as the developers
using the technology to deploy Node.js applications. We look forward to
working alongside our colleagues in the Foundation to help guide the
project in the future."
Danese Cooper, Chairperson of the Node.js Foundation Board
"Node.js is becoming a platform of choice for many large enterprises,
including those leveraging Red Hat mobile application development
technologies. We anticipate that Red Hat will be a valuable member of
the Node.js Foundation Board with its knowledge in this space and its
overall company ethos of openness."
Michael Facemire, principal analyst, Application Development &
Delivery, Forrester Research - quote from September 2015 report "Brief:
IBM Acquires StrongLoop"
"In our daily discussions with clients, we hear a constant drumbeat of
demands for a scalable, highly performant application platform.
Forrester's recent Mobile Infrastructure Services Wave evaluation also
showed this trend, as each of the three solutions in the leaders
category provides data integration facilities by leveraging Node.js."
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