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HP To Simplify Integration of Open Source and Commercial Software

HP announced what it termed the industry’s first offerings of hardware, software, and services to simplify the integration of open source and commercial software. The new HP Open Source Integrated Portfolio (OSIP), HP claims, provides customers with an easy way to deploy a wide range of open source, commercial, and hybrid applications across Linux, Windows® and HP-UX 11i environments.

With the introduction of HP OSIP, which includes new HP Open Source Middleware Stacks (OSMS), HP claims to provide customers with single source accountability for integrated stacks. HP OSMS, HP says, gives customers three new ways to integrate open source technology on HP platforms:

• HP Open Source Building Blocks are HP-supported software components that enable customers to buy and implement open source middleware using a single source for sales, subscriptions, and support. Current building blocks include the JBoss Application Server, JBoss Enterprise Middleware Suite (JEMS) and Symas Corporation’s distribution of OpenLDAP, Connexitor™ Directory Services.
• HP Open Source Blueprints are workload-specific recipes for customers to design and implement their own integrated, HP-supported middleware stacks with HP configuration guidance. HP Open Source Building Blocks are used to construct the blueprints of tested and supported open source stacks. Initial blueprints include Web Application Server and J2EE Application Server.
• HP Open Source Services. Consulting teams help customers incorporate middleware stacks into service-oriented architectures. HP supports customers to build and integrate middleware environments based on open source as well as commercial software across multi-OS environments.