Red Hat recently announced a partnership with Microsoft where Microsoft is now offering Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) as an option on Azure. Although Microsoft has been offering Linux based IaaS offerings on Azure for a few years already, adding RHEL to the mix introduces an option with the backing of Red Hat enterprise support.
Red Hat are also apparently looking to increase integration options between Java and node.js for it’s clients, according to Rich Sharples, senior director for product management at Red Hat, recently speaking at a node.js conference in Portland.