IBM's BlueMix is PaaS, not cat food

From	RS Wood <rswood@therandymon.com>
Newsgroups	comp.misc
Subject	IBM's BlueMix is PaaS, not cat food
Date	2014-02-26 18:02 +0000
Organization	solani.org
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From the "meow meow pass the bluemix" department:
Title: IBM Announces BlueMix - The IBM PaaS
Author: Jon Buys
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 11:37:19 -0500
Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ostatic/~3/CgNXjFYN29A/story01.htm

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BlueMix is IBM’s foray into the increasingly powerful Platform as a Service
(PaaS) industry, leveraging Cloud Foundry[3] and IBM’s own suite of
middleware applications. The entry of big blue into the arena is sending
shockwaves through the PaaS economy, and for good reason. As reported by
ZDNet[4], IBM is starting off by betting a billion dollars on their offering,
and is expecting to bring in $7 billion in revenue[5] on the project by the
end of 2015.

IBM’s explanation of BlueMix is clearly targeted at marketing and executives:

BlueMix is IBM’s open platform for developing and deploying omni-channel
applications, such as mobile and web applications. BlueMix delivers a set
of pre-built services and hosting infrastructure to host application and
business logic for mobile and web developers.

IBM provides four application runtimes for developers to build on:

* Liberty for Java™ - A stripped down version of IBM WebSphere application
server marketed as “WebSphere Liberty Profile”.
* Node.js
* Ruby on Rails
* Ruby Sinatra

IBM is positioning BlueMix as a platform for rapid development of
fast-changing mobile applications, what IBM, predictably, is calling “systems
of engagement”. The world of enterprise IT is changing, and it is obvious
that someone at IBM is paying attention. The corporation continues to
reinvent itself to keep pace with the the industry. With the release of
BlueMix, IBM enters into direct competition with Red Hat’s OpenShift,
Amazon’s Elastic Beanstalk, Heroku, and many other players in the PaaS
environment.

One thing not talked about in the press release is the hardware that IBM has
built BlueMix on. I would not be surprised at all to find that BlueMix runs
entirely on IBM P-Series hardware and Linux. Given IBM’s billion-dollar
investment[6] in that arena already, it makes sense that they would
capitalize on their own hardware and their contributions to the open source
community to port applications to power. However, I would find it curious if
IBM did not choose to use P-Series hardware in BlueMix, which would be close
to a confession that Power is not suitable for large scale cloud deployments.
And of course, if IBM doesn’t use their own hardware, why should we?

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