Red Hat has been on a tear building out its cloud computing strategy and delivering tools to expand its Linux and middleware efforts. In addition to a new cloud-friendly release of Red Hat Storage Server, the company has just announced Red Hat Software Collections 1.0. Available via select Red Hat Enterprise Linux subscriptions, Red Hat Software Collections delivers the newest, stable versions of open source runtime components to subscribers. It provides access to newer, updated versions of languages and open source databases with a three-year lifecycle.
Red Hat Software Collections 1.0 includes:
Programming languages for web application development such as Ruby 1.9.3 with Rails 3.2.8, PHP 5.4, Python 3.3 and 2.7, Perl 5.16.3, and node.js 0.10 (delivered as a Technology Preview); and…
Runtime databases, including MariaDB 5.5, MySQL 5.5, and PostgreSQL 9.2