Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source
solutions, today revealed details for the next phase of its application
platform strategy and direction. Reinforcing its commitment to help
customers respond to the latest technology trends while extending their
existing investments, Red Hat is embracing the evolution of
transformational technologies such as dynamic service fabric, cloud,
NoSQL, mobile, and multi-language polyglot computing as part of its
product strategy. To mark this evolution, Red Hat plans to enable
broader developer access to the JBoss Enterprise Application Platform
product, and will be holding an open election to select a new name for
the JBoss Application Server community project.
This strategy aims to enable tighter collaboration between the global
communities of Red Hat engineers, project contributors, customers and
partners, allowing the technology to evolve more rapidly to meet the
needs of developers and those deploying business-critical applications
whether on-premises, in the cloud, or both.
Red Hat and its communities are driving open source and open
standards-based application platforms in a number of new directions
including:
Dynamic Service Fabric and Hybrid Cloud
Red Hat is continuing to drive the industry from the proprietary,
monolithic application server architectures of the past to a dynamic,
cloud-enabled service fabric that supports public, private, and hybrid
cloud environments. In addition to providing advanced auto-scaling and
provisioning by integrating into its OpenShift Platform-as-a-Service
(PaaS) platform, Red Hat’s hybrid cloud features provide choice and
portability, and avoid lock-in to proprietary platforms or cloud
vendors, providing customers freedom and flexibility.
Collaborating on NoSQL Development with 10gen and MongoDB
Building on the momentum of the Hibernate project, Red Hat has
collaborated with 10gen, a leader in the NoSQL movement with its open
source MongoDB database, to power the next generation of data-powered
applications and establish consistent frameworks to increase the
scalability and reliability of the next generation of cloud and mobile
applications. Red Hat and 10gen have collaborated on Red Hat’s OpenShift
PaaS since its launch in May 2011.
Non-relational database management systems such as NoSQL are gaining
popularity as an effective alternative to traditional relational
database management systems for their scale and developer productivity.
Through the collaboration, Red Hat and 10gen are working together on the
Hibernate OGM project to create a consistent, easy-to-use data access
framework to make NoSQL development mainstream for Java developers and
10gen's popular open source database, MongoDB.
Mobility
JBoss Enterprise Application Platform supports popular mobile frameworks
and technologies to provide a consistent platform for native and HTML5
experiences to an increasing number of computing devices and form
factors beyond the traditional PC through investment in community
projects such as Aerogear.
Open choice and polyglot platforms
JBoss Enterprise Application Platform is also providing the benefits of
a cloud-enabled service fabric to additional languages and frameworks
such as Ruby, Clojure, Ceylon, Scala and the Spring Framework, allowing
developers to choose the most appropriate language or framework while
still being able to leverage the performance, advanced management and
scalability of the Java Virtual Machine. Red Hat will continue to be a
community leader and advocate for enterprise Java standards while
embracing this vision of polyglot programming.
To better reflect these initiatives Red Hat invites the community to
help rename the upstream JBoss Application Server community project
through an election process.
Nominations will be accepted online between October 1 – 14 at http://www.jboss.org/vote.
The top names, as decided by a panel of judges made up of Red Hat
employees, will be presented to the community for voting from October 21
– November 1, and the winning entry will be announced November 12 during
the Devoxx conference in Antwerp, Belgium.
Supporting Quotes:
Rich Sharples, director of product management, Red Hat
“Red Hat remains committed to the community and customers, providing
continued support for existing enterprise Java standards, while also
driving new standards that will allow customers to migrate and adopt the
technology at their own pace. It’s an exciting change and we see it as
an opportunity for both Red Hat and the broader development community to
respond to and lead the charge in this new era of application
development.”
Max Schireson, president, 10gen
“We look forward to collaborating closely with the JBoss team at Red Hat
to power the next generation of data-powered applications. Our joint
goal is to make NoSQL a mainstream technology any Java developer can
take advantage of using their existing expertise and applying the
principles that made Hibernate a success.”
Additional Resources:
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To learn more about the election, or to nominate a name for the final
ballot, please visit http://www.jboss.org/vote
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Visit booth #5201 at JavaOne
to learn more about Red Hat’s JBoss Enterprise Application Platform.
Connect with Red Hat
About Red Hat, Inc.
Red Hat is the world's leading provider of open source software
solutions, using a community-powered approach to reliable and
high-performing cloud, Linux, middleware, storage and virtualization
technologies. Red Hat also offers award-winning support, training, and
consulting services. As the connective hub in a global network of
enterprises, partners, and open source communities, Red Hat helps create
relevant, innovative technologies that liberate resources for growth and
prepare customers for the future of IT. Learn more at http://www.redhat.com.
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