Red Hat grapples with Wall St over JBoss
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Not a good Q2 Red Hat was grilled by Wall Street today on plans its for JBoss after profits took a nose-dive in Q2.â¦
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Red Hat on Thursday revealed a JBoss middleware project aimed at displacing BEA&#39;s Tuxedo transaction-monitoring engine, which has a significant legacy install base.At its JBoss World conference in Orlando, Red Hat unveiled JBoss BlackTie, a project for integrating Java and legacy-based distributed transaction-processing environments. The new product will complement and extend the current JBoss transaction-monitor project, JBoss.org Transactions, through the addition of C, C++, and mainframe-compatible transaction capabilities, according to Red Hat.JBoss, the open source middleware company purchased by Red Hat in April 2006, already had built its reputation by commoditizing the Java-based application server market once dominated by BEA&#39;s WebLogic, which soon will become an Oracle product once the software vendor completes its purchase of BEA.Now JBoss aims to go after the Tuxedo install base, which Sacha Labourey, vice president of engineering middleware at Red Hat JBoss, said represents &quot;tens of millions&quot; of dollars in revenue opportunity. &quot;BlackTie is about helping companies migrate away from one of the key legacy lock-ins out there, Tuxedo,&quot; he said.The BlackTie project will focus on building technology that can emulate transaction-processing monitor APIs, such as the ones for Tuxedo, and can provide open source legacy services such as security, naming, clustering, and transactions. According to Red Hat, the project is aimed at giving enterprise users the opportunity to easily integrate their C, C++, and mainframe applications into JBoss Java-based environments.Code for the BlackTie project will be available in about 60 days. Eventually, Red Hat will offer its own enterprise version of both BlackTie and the JBoss Transactions projects.Red Hat has been trying to integrate the JBoss Java-based middleware with its Linux business to become a multiproduct company. News this week at its JBoss World conference is aimed at dispelling the notion that Red Hat can&#39;t move beyond its Linux roots to offer an entire portfolio of open source products for application development, integration, management, and the like.JBoss gave its software away and charged for consulting and services. Red Hat has a &quot;.org&quot; community version of its Linux product for anyone to use, as well as a more robust enterprise version for large-scale deployments. The company is taking the same approach with JBoss by having JBoss.org community for open source and freely available products, and the JBoss enterprise middleware products that have fees attached to them. The BlackTie project falls under the former category.In addition to BlackTie, Red Hat also Thursday unveiled the global availability of its JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform, which originally was expected to be available by the end of last year.The JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform includes JBoss ESB, which comprises integration, transformation, and a registry and repository for services. IT also includes service orchestration and workflow with the JBoss jBPM product and business policy and rules management and integration with the JBoss Rules product. The JBoss SOA platform is aimed at competing with proprietary SOA infrastructure from companies such as Microsoft, Oracle, and IBM, and is part of JBoss&#39; enterprise middleware offerings.Eventually, there also will be a business analysis component to JBoss&#39; SOA platform, which will make it more competitive with current SOA infrastructure offerings on the market, said Craig Muzilla, vice president of Red Hat&#39;s Middleware Business.Red Hat also launched two other JBoss.org projects Thursday.&#160;One is RHQ, a management platform jointly developed with Hyperic. Eventually, RHQ project will serve as the code base for JBoss Operations Network 2.0 (JON 2.0), due out by midyear.The RHQ project aims to develop a common services management platform that will be used in future versions of both the JBoss middleware and Hyperic&#39;s products, said Katrinka McCallum, vice president of Red Hat&#39;s newly established Business Management Unit.Source code for RHQ is available for licensing now under the GPL open source license. The code, as well as additional project information and community forums, are accessible online at the project&#39;s Web site.Red Hat also introduced a JBoss SOA governance project aimed at keeping track of how enterprise composite applications and services are developed, deployed, and managed throughout their lifecycle. The first open source code for the project, JBoss.org DNA, will be available in 30 days, with more products and source code to come to tackle other areas of governance, according to Red Hat.
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Wall Street analysts debate whether year-end Sarbanes-Oxley deadline will sap demand for corporate software systems.
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Not my bag, baby The news that the operations chief from a major US airline, Jim Whitehurst from Delta, is taking over at Red Hat from Matthew Szulik is a further sign of the growing legitimization of open source and Linux in the eyes of corporate, mainstream America. It underscores how the âsuits to sandalsâ ratio in the open source and Linux movement sliding further towards the suits.â¦
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newsmaker Red Hat executive sees opportunities despite recent challenges to its position from Microsoft and Oracle.
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update A top Red Hat executive has attacked the open-source credentials of its sometime business partner Sun Microsystems. In a Web log posting Thursday, Michael Tiemann, Red Hat&#39;s vice president of open-source
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But middleware will make it chatty Analysis The debate over who in the Linux camp will next get into bed with Microsoft is back on, after Red Hat's chief executive admitted to holding patent talks.â¦
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The New York Stock Exchange is investing in x86-based Linux servers to help power its Hybrid Market trading system, at the expense of Unix machines.
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The introduction of a new version of its Linux distribution and new JBoss software helped Red Hat Inc. increase profit to US$16.2 million, or $0.08 a share, on revenue of $118.9 million, in its fiscal first quarter ended May 31, the company reported Wednesday.
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Apps stack up JBoss software makes its debut today as a member of the Red Hat Application Stack. Red Hat is also to sell JBoss middleware subscriptions for the first time through its distributors and dealers.â¦
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Single installer Sun Microsystems is hoping to leverage the popularity of Red Hat's JBoss, with software making it easier to use NetBeans with the application server.â¦
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In October, Oracle sent Red Hat's stock plummeting on the announcement that the database vendor would offer cut-rate support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux, under the "Unbreakable Linux" brand. Could Larry Ellison now be planning a repeat with "Unbreakable MySQL"?
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(InfoWorld) - Red Hat and Exadel are joining forces to try to make the open source Red Hat platform more of a destination for software developers. The two companies will offer Eclipse-based developer tools for building applications for Red Hat Enterprise Linux and JBoss Enterprise Middleware, Red Hat and Exadel said. "If you take a look at where Red Hat's business was a couple years ago, it was primarily around migration of production systems to Enterprise Linux," said Brian Che, Red Hat product manager. But now, Red Hat wants developers to build new applications, Che said. This week's announcement follows last year's purchase of JBoss as part of Red Hat's strategy. Through an arrangement being announced at the EclipseCon conference in Santa Clara, Calif., on Monday, Exadel will open source all of its products, including the Exadel Studio Pro Web development environment and the RichFaces AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) components platform. Exadel Studio Pro, which is based on the Eclipse platform, will be renamed Red Hat Developer Studio. Also, Exadel's Ajax4jsf, which is a framework for JavaServer Faces applications that use AJAX, will be consolidated under the JBoss.org umbrella. Red Hat will work with Exadel to drive development of these projects and integrate them with JBoss middleware technologies such as the JBoss Seam application framework. In offering its products via open source, Exadel is seeking to increase awareness of its technologies and sell application-building services around them. "We believe that this gives us more visibility," said Donna Burke, Exadel vice president. Red Hat, meanwhile, will support the products itself. The Red Hat and Exadel arrangement provides a new twist on partnerships in that it is not an acquisition and provides just a potential for future revenues from services, said Raven Zachary, senior analyst with The 451 Group. "Here you've got two commercial firms exchanging IP (intellectual property) with only a promise of revenue-sharing in the future. It's a fascinating model," Zachary said. "There's a risk here for Exadel," in giving away its IP, but Exadel believes the move provides greater opportunities, Zachary said. RichFaces and Ajax4jsf provide models for building rich Internet and Web 2.0 applications, Red Hat said. When combining these Exadel developer tools with JBoss Enterprise Middleware, Red Hat can offer a development and deployment platform for developers to assemble SOA components and Web 2.0 applications with less coding, Red Hat and Exadel said. RichFaces and Ajax4jsf are available now as JBoss RichFaces and JBoss Ajax4jsf on JBoss.org under the LGPL (Lesser GNU General Public License). Red Hat is working to open source Exadel Studio Pro as Red Hat Developer Studio under the GNU GPL (General Public License), with availability planned for later in the first half of 2007. Red Hat also plans to introduce a Red Hat developer assistance program. The effort will feature a developer portal that at present has been known by the code name of 108. Also at EclipseCon, AccuRev plans to announce enhancements to its AccuBridge for Eclipse plug, allowing Eclipse developers to access AccuRev software configuration management functionality from within the Eclipse IDE. Performance and usability enhancements in version 4.5.1 of the plug-in include the ability to synchronize a local development workspace with other developers' changes, a customizable AccuRev perspective to view the collection of windows most important to developers, and support for the Eclipse Update Manager. AccuRev also plans to announce it has hired David Jabs as vice president of engineering. He was a founding architect of IBM Rational ClearCase while at Atria Software, AccuRev said.
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Investor's Business Daily - The hippy ethic championed in early ads for the Linux operating system is giving way to good old competitive rancor as Red Hat   and Novell   launch warring campaigns.
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Software maker Red Hat Inc. CEO Jim Whitehurst said Friday Â his fourth day on the job Â that he's angling for a showdown with much larger Oracle Corp. and Microsoft Corp. over leadership in open source products.
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The New York Stock Exchange is investing in x86-based Linux servers to power its Hybrid Market trading system, at the expense of Unix machines.
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Under stress, can the computers of the NYSE make the grade?