Open-source giant Red Hat has acquired cloud apps deployment and management solutions developer Makara, accelerating its PaaS offering’s development.

“”Cloud Foundations is about enabling customers and developers to have an easy on-ramp to the cloud. With the addition of Makara, we aim to further simplify application deployment and management,” said Paul Cormier, president of Products and Technologies at Red Hat. “We welcome the Makara team and look forward to accelerating our delivery of PaaS solutions to the market.”

Red Hat certainly has the right infrastructure to provide the solution it’s aiming for, as the Channel Register interprets a positive outlook for the company.  Who’s missing out, however, is VMware, which was reported to have been considering an acquisition of Makara earlier this year.  “It’s a wonder why VMware, which was also sniffing around Makara, didn’t snap it up just to keep it out of the hands of Red Hat,” the Register reports.  “Too late now.”

“When Makara put out a beta of the Cloud Application Platform when it came out of stealth in February, the tool could be used to overlay Amazon’s EC2 compute clouds as well as Rackspace Cloud and Terramark vCloud public clouds; the tool could be used to make a platform cloud internally on VMware ESX Server, Oracle VirtualBox, or one of a number of Xen hypervisor implementations.

The WebappVM extraction layer did not present a database service layer, but the applications that are running atop WebappVM could be pointed at any database source they need on the public or private cloud.”

Overall, Red Hat has had a good year, and in light of greater open-source adoption among businesses, the industry has grown.  And so did the company.  A report by Accenture confirmed significant growth, as the company renewed all of its top 25 deals for over 120% of their original value.