Red Hat to Acquire FeedHenry - It takes a Village to raise an app

Markus Eisele
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Red Hat, Inc.today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire FeedHenry, a leading enterprise mobile application platform provider. This will expand Red Hat’s portfolio of application development, integration, and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) solutions and support our customers with mobile application development in public and private environments.
A warm welcome to the FeedHenry Team at Red Hat!

What is FeedHenry?
It is a cloud-based mobile application platform to design, develop, deploy and mobile applications. The platform provides specific services for security, notification and data synchronization. You can build hybrid apps not only for iOS, Android, Blackberry and Windows Phone mobile devices but
also as web apps accessible from any browser. On top it enables developer to build access to corporate data and applications into those applications and build backend logic that supports their mobile applications.

What are the technical components?
The open and extensible architecture is based on Node.js for client and server side mobile app development. It 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. Out-of-the-box Node.js plugins are a set of best-in-class Node.js modules that have been tested and curated, ready for developers to cut and paste into their app projects. Those exist for things like Dropbox, Facebook, Google APIs, EC2, Remote Databases, SaaS Connectors,

Why and where does it fit in?
Feedhenry is going to be alligned with the open hybrid cloud strategy and will enable enterprises to accelerate mobile app development and backend integration via private clouds, public clouds, and on-premises. So this is an important addition to Red Hat’s JBoss xPaaS for OpenShift strategy. Learn more about xPaaS in a recent blog-entry. Mobile application services are a key part of that vision and FeedHenry provides the security, policy management, synchronization, and integration features to support mobile applications.


Join the Webcast
Craig Muzilla, senior vice president, Application Platform Business, Red Hat, and Cathal McGloin, chief executive officer, FeedHenry, will host a webcast to discuss this announcement tomorrow, Sept. 19, 2014, at 11 a.m. EDT. Following remarks, press and analysts are invited to participate in a live question and answer session. Join the webcast or view the replay after the event.

Further Readings
FAQ – Red Hat acquisition of FeedHenry
Read the complete press-release on the official Red Hat website.
@feedhenry
Announcement on the Feedhenry website.
Some real-life demos and tutorials on vimeo
Blog-POst from Craig Muzilla

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