Red Hat to Acquire JBoss

tecker writes "Redhat.com has a banner and press release that states that it will be Red Hat that will buy JBoss and not Oracle as previously thought. The press release states "the world's leading provider of open source solutions to the enterprise, today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire JBoss, the global leader in open source middleware. By acquiring JBoss, Red Hat expects to accelerate the shift to service-oriented architectures (SOA), by enabling the next generation of web-enabled applications running on a low-cost, open source platform." Could it be that a one company server package that will rival Microsoft's Windows Server 2003 and ASP will finally emerge?"

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Re:Basic English

[sabat]

You are absolutely right; Slashdot's editors (hah! editors!) do not care about communication. This is one reason Digg is killing Slashdot.

Re:jboss

[moro_666]

you don't really have to buy jboss to get the results that you pointed out.

  an overbloated linux distro company buys an overbloated java application server. sounds logical, especially if redhat is going to get all the $$$ from the jboss support.

  jboss was a clever business idea, but this is probably the last line that we see of it as it is right now, the next releases will start to scare people off, hopefully towards the more open and free implementation of the same thing, the geronimo.

  i have to admit i never liked jbosses model, give the users a nice piece of [censored] without proper documentation and then charge for the books and support. the software itself was great when i had the look at it, but the fact that you had to hack around german forums to find out some nice tricks for free, wasn't so tempting.

  Choose http://geronimo.apache.org/ or any other implementation unless you're all for the red hats.