ORACLE ın da ilgilendiği JBOSS 'u RedHat satın aldı. Bugün JBOSS kullanıcı gruplarına eposta ile bu haberi yayınladı. Açık Kaynak topluluğunun en sağlam destekçilerinden biriyle birleşmesi JBOSS içinde çok iyi olacağı kanısındayım. Burda da OpenSource iş modelinin başarısı ortada. Kullanıcılara geçilen eposta haberin devamında. basın bülteni
Hello JBoss Community,

I am writing to you today to announce some very exciting news. JBoss
and Red Hat have signed a definitive agreement whereby Red Hat will
acquire JBoss. I am personally very excited about this news and wanted
to take this opportunity to let you know what it means for JBoss, our
customers, our partners, and our community as a whole.

The goal of JBoss has always been to promote and accelerate the
adoption of open source and the Professional Open Source Model.
Although JBoss has been experiencing tremendous growth as an
independent company, we believe strongly that there is an even greater
opportunity to join forces with a larger and more established open
source provider to further expedite the growth of our channel, expand
our services offering and coverage, and expedite acceptance of JEMS
technology as an enterprise standard. JBoss chose Red Hat because of
our common vision around open source, our joint desire to protect the
integrity of open source, and because of tremendous synergies in our
business model. Red Hat was the natural choice for JBoss and we are
very excited to be a part of the largest independent open source provider.

We are very confident that our customers will benefit from our
approach of delivering an end-to-end open source platform that reduces
cost and improves efficiencies across the entire application
life-cycle and that is supported by an exceptional global support
organization. Red Hat and JBoss share a common vision of providing
exceptional customer value through an online services network (Red Hat
Network, JBoss Operations Network) and we fully expect to leverage
their joint capabilities in a very complementary fashion.

I am also very excited about what this announcement means for our
certified partners. Red Hat and JBoss both expect this acquisition to
increase the overall demand for open source certified solutions and
services. This union creates the logical target platform for ISVs and
OEMs to bundle and/or embed and increases the market size for
compatible and certified products and services for Red Hat and JBoss
enterprise customers. Together, Red Hat, JBoss, and our ecosystem of
certified partners will continue to provide exceptional customer value
and lower the cost of IT for our joint enterprise customers.

We are very dedicated to preserving our open source communities. The
combined companies will continue to invest in development of new open
source technologies while reaching out to the wider open source
community as a whole to encourage continued and active participation
in the success of our combined open source projects. Additionally, we
absolutely understand that our communities, customers, and partners
require support for heterogeneous platforms. As such, we will continue
to deliver open source products that support multiple operating and
Middleware platforms. The flexibility and modularity that you have
come to expect from JBoss will continue.

If you would like more information on this announcement, I invite you
to visit our website: www.jboss.com/redhat. Although I have spoken
very positively about the acquisition, I must also point out that we
still must obtain the necessary regulatory approvals before the deal
can be completed. We hope and expect this process to be completed
within the next sixty to ninety days. After the deal officially
closes, we will begin to share more details with you on the specifics
of our roadmaps and support offerings. I would recommend stopping by
to see us at Java One this year and I strongly encourage you to attend
JBoss World in Las Vegas on June 12-15.

Oh, and remember, we love you.

Marc Fleury
Founder and CEO
JBoss, Inc.