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Red Hat CEO Matt Szulik Explains the JBoss Deal

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the his-boss-wears-a-red-hat dept.

Anonymous Coward writes "eWeek has an interview with Red Hat CEO Matt Szulik about the JBoss acquisition, where he says he approached Marc Fleury about the deal, never discussed the Oracle negotiations with him, and positions Red Hat as the next generation enterprise technology company." From the article: "It certainly broadens our product portfolio into an adjacent market, the middleware market. Over the last 18 months we heard growing requests from government and commercial accounts that had JBoss and were using Tomcat and Hibernate and wanted Red Hat to take a more direct position in that market. They also wanted the service competencies that we can deliver globally."

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  1. Bring everything under one roof by BadAnalogyGuy · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Is it even possible to have a monopoly in the OSS market?

    1. Re:Bring everything under one roof by vhogemann · · Score: 2, Interesting

      If you want to pay for it, yes.

      Right now I'm having a major trouble trying to migrate a mail server from RedHat7.x to Debian Sarge because the mailboxes are stored at Symetrics EMC Storage unit, and they offer support to RedHat and Suse. We tried to get an answer from the vendor, to see if they could support Debian also, but in the end it took soooooooo long that the old server went down, and in order to keep the mail service up we instaled Debian anyways, and used an open-source module for the fibre-channel card.

      Also, if you want to use Oracle on Linux, and keep their full support, you must use RedHat or Suse. You can run Oracle with Debian or Gentoo, but if you do that Oracle won't give you support...

      So, the bottom line is: if you want to buy, only RedHat and Novell are selling. But if you want everything for free, you can get from anyone.

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    2. Re:Bring everything under one roof by JustinKSU · · Score: 1, Interesting

      Is it even possible to have a monopoly in the OSS market?

      Yes. Corporations desire the cost efficiency, stability, features, and "coolness" of using OSS. However, they need to have the security blanket of support to the caliber that IBM would provide (snicker). If something breaks and the developers can't fix it, they want to be able to go to the source. The perceived source would be the company that is distributing and managing the software, i.e. RedHat.

      I think it's a good move by RedHat to act as the corporate intermediary to the OSS way of life.

  2. Hibernate by hypersql · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Oracle whould just have tried to convert JBoss customers to Oracle. Red Hat will probably let JBoss do what they want, and that's good (not that Linux would be bad).

    The most imporant asset of JBoss is probably Hibernate, and I think Red Hat knows that even better than Marc Fleury. Java/Tomcat/Stuts(JSF)/Hibernate is a good and proven plattform, and is here to stay. I think app servers will play a less important role in the next years.

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  3. Red Hat's future bankruptcy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Investing in Java software is like throwing money down the drain. No matter how much they spend on it one fact remains: they bought a slow, bloated Java app. What does that tell you about Red Hat's business sense?

    1. Re:Red Hat's future bankruptcy by johnjaydk · · Score: 2, Interesting
      And thanks to Hibernate, Java kicks the collective ass of every other web enabled language out there.

      And JBoss (the company) just happens to be deeply involved with Hibernate. Plus the hibernate model is pretty close to the new entity-bean model in EJB 3. Smart buy if you ask me ...

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