Red Hat CEO Matt Szulik Explains the JBoss Deal 37
Anonymous Coward writes "eWeek has an interview with Red Hat CEO Matt Szulik about the JBoss acquisition, where he says he approached Marc Fleury about the deal, never discussed the Oracle negotiations with him, and positions Red Hat as the next generation enterprise technology company." From the article: "It certainly broadens our product portfolio into an adjacent market, the middleware market. Over the last 18 months we heard growing requests from government and commercial accounts that had JBoss and were using Tomcat and Hibernate and wanted Red Hat to take a more direct position in that market. They also wanted the service competencies that we can deliver globally."
Bring everything under one roof (Score:2, Interesting)
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Right now I'm having a major trouble trying to migrate a mail server from RedHat7.x to Debian Sarge because the mailboxes are stored at Symetrics EMC Storage unit, and they offer support to RedHat and Suse. We tried to get an answer from the vendor, to see if they could support Debian also, but in the end it took soooooooo long that the old server went down, and in order to keep the mail service up we instaled Debian anyways, and used an open-source module for the fibre-channe
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Yes. Corporations desire the cost efficiency, stability, features, and "coolness" of using OSS. However, they need to have the security blanket of support to the caliber that IBM would provide (snicker). If something breaks and the developers can't fix it, they want to be able to go to the source. The perceived source would be the company that is distributing and managing the software, i.e. RedHat.
I think it's a good move by RedHat to act a
Re:I have to admit (Score:2, Offtopic)
There are many places to ask questions like this on the web and get answers from very knowledgeble people who are happy to help, such as yak.net.
The Future of Software is Consulting, not Licenses (Score:5, Informative)
They were trying to "buy" JBoss customers, and the federal government is one of the biggest users of Open Source products such as JBoss. At least with the government, I see the amount of money spent on IT consultants compared to actual software licenses. Software was just an excuse to get Oracle consultants in the door.
Red Hat significantly upped their capabilities as a consulting company - might be a good idea to buy Red Hat stock.
Re:The Future of Software is Consulting, not Licen (Score:5, Insightful)
I mostly agree, the is a problem for established companies in that margins on licenses are near 100%, where as margins on consulting are closer to 30%. Moreover, there's far more fixed overhead associated with increasing consulting revenue than with increasing software revenue. The OSS model chips away at the foundation of software revenue while freeing dollars for consulting revenue. It's good because it means more employment for software techs. However, I think the future is going to be broader than just consulting. There are going to be openings in customization and implementation that weren't fully possible in the world of closed software.
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How often do the M$ licensing dollars go round and round, or are they locked up in a vault somewhere?
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Competition matters more than independence (Score:5, Insightful)
All I have to say is (Score:3, Funny)
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Hibernate (Score:2, Interesting)
The most imporant asset of JBoss is probably Hibernate, and I think Red Hat knows that even better than Marc Fleury. Java/Tomcat/Stuts(JSF)/Hibernate is a good and proven plattform, and is here to stay. I think app servers will play a less important role in the next years.
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I think the same trend happens with XML: first, everybod
Red Hat's future bankruptcy (Score:1, Interesting)
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Did you ever saw an Java application running at the server-side? Tomcat/Struts/JSP is blazing fast, way faster than PHP for an example.
The real bottleneck for most web applications is the database access. And thanks to Hibernate, Java kicks the collective ass of every other web enabled language out there.
Re:Red Hat's future bankruptcy (Score:3, Interesting)
And JBoss (the company) just happens to be deeply involved with Hibernate. Plus the hibernate model is pretty close to the new entity-bean model in EJB 3. Smart buy if you ask me ...
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I'm not a big Java fan and would rather program in Ruby all day long over Java (well, personally with no external condidtions other than the fun of hacking), but fair is fair and Java is anything but slow and
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Wow. 14 comments already. (Score:2, Troll)
(Do you run Run Hat on any of your Linux boxes? Didn't think so.)
Re:Wow. 14 comments already. (Score:2)
Nice try at a troll. Try again.
Re:What JBoss Really Feels About Red Hat (Score:1, Informative)
not so sure about this (Score:2)
Now, I'm not sure if that's what Red Hat is planning to do, but it sure smells lkie it and the smell is a stinky smell not a rose smell.
Also, I'm not sure if I like the approach either. The best way to have a successfull complicat