Here’s one we’ve been hearing about for awhile but were never able to confirm: Red Hat is buying FeedHenry, a mobile development platform, for about $82 million in cash. FeedHenry is based in Waterford, Ireland.
The deal made too much sense not to happen. With Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services fielding their own mobile development toolsets and VMware partnering with Kinvey, there was a bit of a gap in Red Hat’s portfolio. Red Hat, after all, is an enterprise-focused company, and enterprise mobile is all the rage right now. FeedHenry, Kinvey, Parse (now owned by Facebook) and StackMob (now owned by PayPal) were all in the Mobile-Backend-as-a-Service (MBaaS) game. Yes it’s a tortured term, but there you have it.
Per the Red Hat press release:
FeedHenry enables enterprises to accelerate their mobile app development and backend integration via private clouds, public clouds, and on-premises. FeedHenry is an important addition to Red Hat’s JBoss OpenShift strategy, announced in September 2013, providing a platform and services for mobile developers and applications.
I guess we can consider that closed.

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