Red Hat to Help Enterprises Move to Open Source Middleware

 http://www.redhat.com/about/news/press-archive/2013/6/red-hat-launches-new-initiative-to-help-enterprises-chart-course-to-open-source

Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced new community resources designed to help enterprises migrate to open source middleware technologies, including a community-driven JBoss Migration Center and new tooling to ease the process of migrating from proprietary application server technologies to the open source JBoss platform.

As more enterprises develop technology-dependent products and services, interest in robust and reliable middleware continues to grow. These enterprises are reconsidering existing investments in middleware as they look at open hybrid clouds, yet may find themselves unable to proceed as easily as they would like with proprietary middleware solutions because of “cloud unfriendly” features and practices, including rigid architectures, prohibitive license structures, and lack of portability. In addition, the technical complexity and mission-critical nature of enterprise applications present numerous migration challenges when the time comes to change platforms.

• JBoss Migration Center: To this end, Red Hat has created a new JBoss Migration Center to help enterprises ‘get unstuck’ and navigate middleware migrations. The new JBoss Migration Center includes a set of open source migration assessment tools as well as guides and documentation to accelerate the process and reduce the risk of migrating applications to Red Hat JBoss Middleware.

• Windup: One of the first tools available in the JBoss Migration Center is the Windup project, which can be used to asses and accelerate the process of migrating workloads from proprietary application servers to Red Hat’s open source JBoss Enterprise Application Platform. Over time, Red Hat anticipates additional open source contributions from customers and partners will augment the JBoss Migration Center, expanding its capabilities to a wider range of migration scenarios.

This is great, anything we can do to extend competition in the middleware space has to be good news for the customer in terms of choice and the industry in terms of competition.  Middleware can become increasingly expensive and include more complex operating models, so any innovations that Red Hat can bring to deliver more accessible middleware offerings both in terms of pricing and functionality has to be a good thing, do check it out, I wonder if this will include their Messaging offering.

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