通过这次并购和接下来的业务整合，RedHat已经从单一的Linux分销商和服务供应商跃升为平台供应商，现在，这家位于美国North Carolina州Raleigh市的Linux供应商已经完全将JBoss的销售和服务体系整合到了自己的服务架构中。
JBoss通过整合入Redhat，已经获得不少成效，特别是在欧洲、中东和非洲地区。在过去一年中，上述地区的销售收入和合作伙伴数量都得到了大幅度的提高，应该通过和RedHat 企业级Linux的整合，在金融、公共管理、高科技企业和通信等市场都有所斩获。
在这次大会中，JBoss向用户演示了最新的JBoss Application Server 5.0版本的核心组件，这也是JEMS套件的核心部分，并且兼容Java EE 5版本。
This week, Berlin is hosting the European JBoss World Conference. Red Hat is now the organizer of the three-day conference for developers and users of the JBoss Enterprise Middleware Suite (JEMS). In April, the Linux distributor took over the middleware specialist and recently began offering its products, which are still published under the independent JBoss brand, as part of its own the Red Hat Application Stack in combination with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL).
This takeover and the resulting expansion of Red Hat's portfolio to include a complete SOA Suite has shifted Red Hat's focus from a Linux distributor and service provider towards more of a platform provider. Based in Raleigh, North Carolina, the company has already completely integrated JBoss' sales and support departments in its own infrastructure.
JBoss already seems to have benefited from Red Hat's position on the EMEA market (Europe, the Middle East, and Africa), where sales revenue and the number of new partnerships have grown considerably over the past year. Red Hat is generally very strong in the finance sector, public administration, high-tech industry, and telecommunications.
JBoss has presented the core components of the upcoming version 5.0 of its JBoss Application Server (AS) -- the heart of the JEMS Suite and Java EE 5 compatible -- to developers and users. In addition to the SOAP stack, these components include the Seam web application framework, JBoss Clustering, JBoss Messaging, JBoss EJB3 -- JBoss' implementation of EJB 3.0 -- and the Hibernate persistence framework.
All of the components listed work with the current JBoss Application Server 4.05 and can be downloaded, as can the first beta version of Application Server 5.0. The final version of AS 5.0 is expected to be released in the first half of 2007.
JBoss' acquired EBS implementation -- JBoss Enterprise Service Bus 4.0 based on Rosetta ESB and designed as an addition to the company's middleware product range -- has also been drawing a lot of attention.
The execs at JBoss and Red Hat agree that Unbreakable Linux, a version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux announced at the end of October by database giant Oracle, is basically just a lot of hot air. On the other hand, they are suspicious about the pact that their competitor Novell recently entered into with Microsoft. As JBoss founder Mark Fleury put it, "what they are trying to do is fork the legal support by saying they will not sue." (Craig Morris) / (jk/c't)