Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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> | Red Hat Inc., which makes open-source Linux software and offers Linux
> | support, on Thursday said its fourth-quarter earnings declined 25 percent
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> | "I don't think anybody sees the JBoss acquisition as a negative thing,"
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IBM Steps Up Campaign Against Red Hat's JBoss Server
IBM introduces a free tool to help businesses replace Red Hat's open
source JBoss application server with IBM's WebSphere Community Edition
application server.
By Paul McDougall
InformationWeek
March 29, 2007 02:00 PM
IBM is beefing up its ongoing efforts to lure users of a rival product
over to its own open source server software.
On Thursday, the company announced availability of a free tool designed
to help businesses replace Red Hat's open source JBoss application
server with IBM's WebSphere Community Edition application server, which
is based on the competing Apache Geronimo project.
IBM developed the migration tool in partnership with open source
developer Covalent Technologies.
As the name implies, an application server is middleware software that
serves up applications to client computers connected to a server. IBM
entered the open source application server market in 2005 with its
acquisition of Gluecode Software. It has since folded much of Gluecode's
technology into WebSphere Community Edition.
The acquisition was widely viewed as a defensive parry against JBoss, an
independent company before it was acquired by Red Hat last year. IBM was
concerned that JBoss' open source application server was stealing market
share from the commercial editions of WebSphere.
With an open source application server of its own, IBM's hope is that it
can eventually upgrade customers who opt for WebSphere Community Edition
to the full enterprise version, in part negating the open source threat
to its commercial middleware offerings.
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Exactly.
regards,
alexander.
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"At some point you become so shrill that you lose the audience, who
moves on to something that better fits the business needs," Steve
Mills senior vice president of IBM's software group, said Wednesday
while discussing the new GPL.
-- news.com
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