It’s one thing to accept the existence of middleware in a situation where applications are being moved from a “legacy,” client/server, n-tier scheme into a fully distributed systems environment. For a great many applications whose authors have long ago moved on to well-paying jobs, containerizing the middleware upon which they depend may be the only way for them to co-exist with modern applications in a hybrid data center.
It’s why it’s a big deal that Red Hat is extending its JBoss Fuse middleware service for OpenShift. It’s also why Cloud Foundry’s move last December to make its Open Service Broker API an open standard can be viewed as a necessary event for container platforms.
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