Wednesday, 29 November 2006

Red Hat Drives Customer Value Beyond Linux

Red Hat, a provider of open source solutions, has plans to combine a virtualised operating system and a full set of building blocks for building Service-Oriented (SOA) solutions to provide enterprise computing. Red Hat believes that virtualisation and SOA are technology strategies that companies should adopt to realise long-term cost savings while increasing productivity and performance.

Red Hat launched its 'Open Source Architecture for the Enterprise' strategy in 2002. Starting with the core Linux platform, Red Hat worked to build an ecosystem that included a robust hardware and software partner ecosystem, storage, management and security. With the acquisition of JBoss in June, Red Hat is now driving value into the middleware layer. This will enable customers to take advantage of SOA applications, the company said.

"Red Hat's core technology focus in 2006 was virtualisation. Mid-way through the year we began working to integrate the efficiency of virtualisation with the flexibility of SOA. Red Hat's goal is to eliminate the dependency on pricey, monolithic platforms that guarantee lock-in and products that must be cobbled together," said Paul Cormier, Executive Vice President of Engineering at Red Hat.