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    Look Out, World, Here Comes Red Hat

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    Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
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    April 10, 2006
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      Red Hat acquiring JBoss is big news for the open-source world. It may be even bigger news for the entire software world, though.

      Red Hat has long been the dominant Linux distributor. Its switch from a retail-box end-user Linux to a subscription-based business distribution made it no friends in the Linux community, but Red Hats bottom line showed that its path was a rip-roaring business success.

      On the flip side, love him or hate him, JBoss CEO Marc Fleury, with his “professional open source,” has made JBosss J2EE (Java 2 Enterprise Edition) server and its associated software—JEMS (JBoss Enterprise Middleware System)—the Java-based middleware stack for businesses.

      Put them together and you get a company that can challenge Microsoft across the entire server line.

      Thats not news, in some ways.

      Linux owns edge-servers, which provide Web and Internet services. In enterprises, Linux also kicks rump and takes names, with its Samba-based file and print services.

      In addition, LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP/Python/Perl) servers have long been seen as the low-end for Web services. But, when they wanted serious enterprise services, most businesses have heretofore turned to a Microsoft proprietary stack or to J2EE.

      /zimages/2/28571.gifClick here to read more about Red Hats acquisition of JBoss.

      Now, Red Hat will be able to offer an integrated software stack that can handle all of a companys server needs.

      /zimages/2/28571.gifRead the full story on Linux-Watch: Look out world, here comes Red Hat

      /zimages/2/28571.gifCheck out eWEEK.coms for the latest open-source news, reviews and analysis.

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      Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
      I'm editor-at-large for Ziff Davis Enterprise. That's a fancy title that means I write about whatever topic strikes my fancy or needs written about across the Ziff Davis Enterprise family of publications. You'll find most of my stories in Linux-Watch, DesktopLinux and eWEEK. Prior to becoming a technology journalist, I worked at NASA and the Department of Defense on numerous major technological projects.

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