Red Hat expands enterprise portfolio

NEW DELHI, INDIA: Open source solutions provider Red Hat has announced the “Enterprise Acceleration” initiative designed to help enterprise customers accelerate their transition to a next-generation, open source architecture based on JBoss Enterprise Middleware.

The strategy, announced at JBoss World Orlando, focuses on expanding the JBoss Enterprise Middleware portfolio through the availability of the JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform and the sponsorship of multiple new open source community projects, including JBoss.org BlackTie.

The JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform,  expected to be available in Asia Pacific by March 2008, is a comprehensive, open source SOA product to help enterprises develop business solutions rapidly and to improve productivity within and across enterprises.

“Red Hat’s JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform offers enterprises the opportunity to integrate applications and services, as well as streamline business processes more simply, openly and cost-effectively than with expensive, monolithic proprietary SOA platforms,” said Gery Messer, president, Red Hat Asia Pacific.

JBoss.org BlackTie is a new project for integrating Java and legacy-based distributed transaction-processing environments.

BlackTie will complement and extend the current JBoss transaction monitor project, JBoss.org Transactions, through the addition of C, C++ and mainframe compatible transaction capabilities.

This will enable organizations to better integrate and migrate legacy environments with next-generation, Java-based transaction environments.

“JBoss is strengthening Red Hat’s leadership in the open source community with a number of initiatives intended to expand the availability of enterprise-level capabilities necessary to advance the growth of open source middleware in organizations," added Messer.”

The JBoss.org BlackTie project is designed to fully support the ATMI programming interface.

It eliminates the need to replace customer client, server or service code and at the same time, help simplify customer migration paths.