NYSE Euronext Standardizes on JBoss Enterprise Middleware

Red Hat has announced the latest version of its JBoss Enterprise Middleware platform, claiming that version 5.0 can be used to integrate a range of applications, services, transactions and business process features into one simple architecture.

Custom applications are vital to any business; there’s no argument there. But, it can be very difficult to determine the costs and benefits of the middleware necessary to develop, deploy, and manage those custom applications. So how do you know if your middleware is really delivering value? And what is “value” anyway? Is it low upfront acquisition costs?

Red Hat (NYSE: RHT) has joined Hewlett-Packard‘s (NYSE: HPQ) HP Enterprise Services Technology Alliance program.

SANTA CLARA, Calif.—-ECLIPSECON—Red Hat , the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that it will host the first online virtual forum, Middleware2020, to discuss the future use of middleware in enterprise IT.

Linux and open source middleware JBoss has made its mark in the enterprise, and it is just a matter of time before open source becomes mainstream in other functional parts of the IT infrastructure as well. Where exactly that will happen, however, is the interesting question.

Enterprise SOA Platform 5.0 and Developer Studio 5.0 available Red Hat rolled out updates to its SOA platform and development tools in the company’s JBoss middleware product line at the EclipseCon 2010 conference.

Red Hat rolled out on Monday updates to its SOA platform and development tools in the company’s JBoss middleware product line at the EclipseCon 2010 conference. Included in the rollout at the Santa Clara, Calif.

Red Hat (NYSE: RHT) and IBM Corp. (NYSE: IBM) are countering VMware (NYSE: VMW) in the government market, promoting a secure virtualization platform on IBM x86 servers. But here’s the twist: VMware has offered a similar level of security since at least 2010.

Many Red Hat solutions offer the back-end plumbing of IT architecture that is paramount to run highly critical workloads for large enterprise companies. It just works but many people that do business with our customers don’t even realize they are benefiting from the cost savings, performance and flexibility offered by open source technologies.