JBoss Expands Open Source SOA Platform with Enterprise Service Bus

  
    
  
  
    
      JBoss, a division of Red Hat (NASDAQ: RHAT), today introduced JBoss ESB, 
      which rounds out the JBoss Enterprise Middleware Suite (JEMS) as the 
      defining open source platform for service-oriented architecture (SOA). 
      With the addition of JBoss ESB to Red Hat’s 
      arsenal, enterprises now have a complete set of leading, low-cost SOA 
      building blocks for modern applications and the ability to run them on a 
      virtualized Linux platform. As the global leader in open source 
      software, Red Hat is driving costs out of the IT infrastructure by 
      offering a tested and certified open source platform that delivers 
      value, yet is comprised of modular pieces that ensure customer choice 
      and flexibility.
    
    
      An ESB intermediates interactions between enterprise applications, 
      business services, business components, and middleware to integrate and 
      automate business processes. Built on mature JEMS technology and the 
      Rosetta ESB—a field-proven ESB donated by a 
      longstanding customer in the insurance sector—JBoss 
      ESB comes with a three-year track record in handling complex integration 
      and real-time events in a mission-critical business environment with 
      3,000 employees across 40 locations serving two million customers.
    
    
      “JBoss ESB is the result of a true community 
      effort, from the technology donation that helped accelerate our 
      development timeline to the individual developers who brought their 
      expertise to the project,” said Pierre Fricke, 
      director of product management, JBoss. “This 
      release provides a fundamental building block for our SOA integration 
      platform. As an integrated company, Red Hat and JBoss are focused on 
      delivering the leading open source platform for next-generation 
      computing that drives down infrastructure costs for our customers 
      without compromising on value and choice.”
    
    
      JBoss ESB leverages other JEMS technologies, such as the JBoss Rules 
      business rules engine for content-based routing and JBossMQ for 
      messaging. Over time, JBoss plans to extend JBoss ESB with additional 
      JEMS products such as the JBoss jBPM business process management and 
      workflow engine, to create a complete business process automation 
      platform. As part of its effort to enable customers and accelerate their 
      path to SOA, JBoss will be looking to partners to extend the ESB with 
      connectors, B2B gateways, SOA governance, and business services. 
      Enterprises can start building on JBoss ESB today, with the assurance of 
      standards-based portability.
    
    
      “By offering a pluggable platform, Red Hat is 
      making it easier for enterprises to move to flexible, open SOA-based 
      systems with best-of-breed technologies,” said 
      Ed Horst, vice president of marketing, AmberPoint. “We 
      support JBoss products and will continue to extend our support for the 
      Red Hat Open Source Architecture platform to benefit customers looking 
      for a proven solution for SOA management and governance.”
    
    
      “Our partnership with JBoss and deepening 
      integration with JEMS help SeeWhy deliver the strongest real-time 
      business intelligence solution for SOA environments,” 
      said Charles Nicholls, CEO of SeeWhy Software. “To 
      fully realize the potential of SOA, customers need intelligent 
      processes, as well as the capability to instantly act upon information 
      related to those processes. Close integration with products such as 
      JBoss ESB gives the SeeWhy platform this ability and offers Red Hat 
      customers a BI solution that will enhance their SOA initiatives.”
    
    
      “With their strong track record in Linux and 
      open-source middleware, Red Hat and JBoss are well positioned to 
      accelerate SOA implementations across the entire market. Vyante sees 
      this as a great opportunity and is working to ensure a strong 
      partnership by optimizing our EnvoySOA product for JEMS and JBoss ESB,” 
      said Aaron Kopel, CEO, Vyante.
    
    
      Key features of JBoss ESB 4.0 include:
    
    
      
        A pluggable architecture enables all JBoss ESB subsystems such 
        as messaging and transformation to be swapped with other alternatives, 
        which gives customers flexibility and choice.
      
      
        Support for a variety of messaging services, including secure 
        FTP, HTTP, email and JMS (JBossMQ, JBoss Messaging, IBM MQSeries, and 
        ActiveMQ).
      
      
        Transformation engine that bridges data formats for seamless 
        communication, supporting XSLT and Smooks, a flexible alternative.
      
      
        Service registry for service discovery and integration, using 
        JAX-R and UDDI.
      
      
        Persisted event repository to support governance of the ESB 
        environment.
      
      
        Notification service to allow the ESB to register events and 
        signal subscribers.
      
      
        Content-based routing based on XPath and JBoss Rules for a more 
        flexible and dynamic alternative to publish-subscribe.
      
      
        Gateways that allow non-ESB aware clients to interact with 
        services deployed within the JBoss ESB environment.
      
    
    
      A release candidate of JBoss ESB 4.0 is now available at http://jboss.com/products/esb. 
      General availability of the community release is targeted for December 
      2006, with planned Red Hat subscription support in 2007. JBoss ESB is 
      licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) and runs on 
      all platforms, including Linux, Solaris, and Windows.
    
    
      About Red Hat, Inc.
    
    
      Red Hat, the world’s leading open source 
      solutions provider, is headquartered in Raleigh, NC with satellite 
      offices spanning the globe. CIOs and other senior-level IT executives 
      have ranked Red Hat as the industry’s most 
      valued vendor for two consecutive years in the CIO Insight Magazine 
      Vendor Value study. Red Hat is leading Linux and open source solutions 
      into the mainstream by making high-quality, low-cost technology 
      accessible. Red Hat provides an operating system platform, Red Hat 
      Enterprise Linux, along with applications, management, and middleware 
      solutions, including JBoss Enterprise Middleware Suite. Red Hat is 
      accelerating the shift to service-oriented architectures and enabling 
      the next generation of web-enabled applications running on a low-cost, 
      secure open source platform. Red Hat also offers support, training and 
      consulting services to its customers worldwide and through top-tier 
      partnerships. Red Hat's open source strategy offers customers a long 
      term plan for building infrastructures that are based on and leverage 
      open source technologies with a focus on security and ease of 
      management. Learn more: http://www.redhat.com.
    
    
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JBoss, a division of Red Hat (NASDAQ: RHAT), today introduced
JBoss ESB, which rounds out the JBoss Enterprise Middleware Suite
(JEMS) as the defining open source platform for service-oriented
architecture (SOA). With the addition of JBoss ESB to Red Hat's
arsenal, enterprises now have a complete set of leading, low-cost SOA
building blocks for modern applications and the ability to run them on
a virtualized Linux platform. As the global leader in open source
software, Red Hat is driving costs out of the IT infrastructure by
offering a tested and certified open source platform that delivers
value, yet is comprised of modular pieces that ensure customer choice
and flexibility.

   An ESB intermediates interactions between enterprise applications,
business services, business components, and middleware to integrate
and automate business processes. Built on mature JEMS technology and
the Rosetta ESB--a field-proven ESB donated by a longstanding customer
in the insurance sector--JBoss ESB comes with a three-year track
record in handling complex integration and real-time events in a
mission-critical business environment with 3,000 employees across 40
locations serving two million customers.

   "JBoss ESB is the result of a true community effort, from the
technology donation that helped accelerate our development timeline to
the individual developers who brought their expertise to the project,"
said Pierre Fricke, director of product management, JBoss. "This
release provides a fundamental building block for our SOA integration
platform. As an integrated company, Red Hat and JBoss are focused on
delivering the leading open source platform for next-generation
computing that drives down infrastructure costs for our customers
without compromising on value and choice."

   JBoss ESB leverages other JEMS technologies, such as the JBoss
Rules business rules engine for content-based routing and JBossMQ for
messaging. Over time, JBoss plans to extend JBoss ESB with additional
JEMS products such as the JBoss jBPM business process management and
workflow engine, to create a complete business process automation
platform. As part of its effort to enable customers and accelerate
their path to SOA, JBoss will be looking to partners to extend the ESB
with connectors, B2B gateways, SOA governance, and business services.
Enterprises can start building on JBoss ESB today, with the assurance
of standards-based portability.

   "By offering a pluggable platform, Red Hat is making it easier for
enterprises to move to flexible, open SOA-based systems with
best-of-breed technologies," said Ed Horst, vice president of
marketing, AmberPoint. "We support JBoss products and will continue to
extend our support for the Red Hat Open Source Architecture platform
to benefit customers looking for a proven solution for SOA management
and governance."

   "Our partnership with JBoss and deepening integration with JEMS
help SeeWhy deliver the strongest real-time business intelligence
solution for SOA environments," said Charles Nicholls, CEO of SeeWhy
Software. "To fully realize the potential of SOA, customers need
intelligent processes, as well as the capability to instantly act upon
information related to those processes. Close integration with
products such as JBoss ESB gives the SeeWhy platform this ability and
offers Red Hat customers a BI solution that will enhance their SOA
initiatives."

   "With their strong track record in Linux and open-source
middleware, Red Hat and JBoss are well positioned to accelerate SOA
implementations across the entire market. Vyante sees this as a great
opportunity and is working to ensure a strong partnership by
optimizing our EnvoySOA product for JEMS and JBoss ESB," said Aaron
Kopel, CEO, Vyante.

   Key features of JBoss ESB 4.0 include:

   --  A pluggable architecture enables all JBoss ESB subsystems such
        as messaging and transformation to be swapped with other
        alternatives, which gives customers flexibility and choice.

   --  Support for a variety of messaging services, including secure
        FTP, HTTP, email and JMS (JBossMQ, JBoss Messaging, IBM
        MQSeries, and ActiveMQ).

   --  Transformation engine that bridges data formats for seamless
        communication, supporting XSLT and Smooks, a flexible
        alternative.

   --  Service registry for service discovery and integration, using
        JAX-R and UDDI.

   --  Persisted event repository to support governance of the ESB
        environment.

   --  Notification service to allow the ESB to register events and
        signal subscribers.

   --  Content-based routing based on XPath and JBoss Rules for a
        more flexible and dynamic alternative to publish-subscribe.

   --  Gateways that allow non-ESB aware clients to interact with
        services deployed within the JBoss ESB environment.

   A release candidate of JBoss ESB 4.0 is now available at
http://jboss.com/products/esb. General availability of the community
release is targeted for December 2006, with planned Red Hat
subscription support in 2007. JBoss ESB is licensed under the GNU
Lesser General Public License (LGPL) and runs on all platforms,
including Linux, Solaris, and Windows.

   About Red Hat, Inc.

   Red Hat, the world's leading open source solutions provider, is
headquartered in Raleigh, NC with satellite offices spanning the
globe. CIOs and other senior-level IT executives have ranked Red Hat
as the industry's most valued vendor for two consecutive years in the
CIO Insight Magazine Vendor Value study. Red Hat is leading Linux and
open source solutions into the mainstream by making high-quality,
low-cost technology accessible. Red Hat provides an operating system
platform, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, along with applications,
management, and middleware solutions, including JBoss Enterprise
Middleware Suite. Red Hat is accelerating the shift to
service-oriented architectures and enabling the next generation of
web-enabled applications running on a low-cost, secure open source
platform. Red Hat also offers support, training and consulting
services to its customers worldwide and through top-tier partnerships.
Red Hat's open source strategy offers customers a long term plan for
building infrastructures that are based on and leverage open source
technologies with a focus on security and ease of management. Learn
more: http://www.redhat.com.

   Forward-Looking Statements

   Certain statements contained in this press release may constitute
"forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private
Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements
provide current expectations of future events based on certain
assumptions and include any statement that does not directly relate to
any historical or current fact. Actual results may differ materially
from those indicated by such forward-looking statements as a result of
various important factors, including: risks related to the integration
of acquisitions; the ability of the Company to effectively compete;
the inability to adequately protect Company intellectual property and
the potential for infringement or breach of license claims of or
relating to third party intellectual property; risks related to data
and information security vulnerabilities; ineffective management of,
and control over, the Company's growth and international operations;
adverse results in litigation; the dependence on key personnel as well
as other factors contained in in our most recent Quarterly Report on
Form 10-Q (copies of which may be accessed through the Securities and
Exchange Commission's website at http://www.sec.gov), including those
found therein under the captions "Risk Factors" and "Management's
Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of
Operations". In addition, the forward-looking statements included in
this press release represent the Company's views as of the date of
this press release and these views could change. However, while the
Company may elect to update these forward-looking statements at some
point in the future, the Company specifically disclaims any obligation
to do so. These forward-looking statements should not be relied upon
as representing the Company's views as of any date subsequent to the
date of the press release.

   LINUX is a trademark of Linus Torvalds. RED HAT and JBOSS are
registered trademarks of Red Hat, Inc. and its subsidiaries in the US
and other countries.