Linux distributor Red Hat said on Monday that it has signed an agreement to buy open-source company JBoss for at least US$350 million, a move that expands Red Hat's product line and adds to its growth potential.
Two initiatives from open-source companies JBoss and LogicBlaze point to the growing encroachment of open-source products on pricey back-end software.
Open-source Java software company JBoss Group said on Monday that it will participate in the Sun Microsystems-controlled process that dictates the technical direction of Java software.
Sun Microsystems has made an important Jave compliance test available to JBoss Group--the latest manoeuvre in an ongoing scuffle between the industry giant and the upstart open-source software company.
Sun Microsystems and open-source software maker JBoss Group have resolved a long-standing dispute over a key Java standard.
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Open-source software is starting to expand into the big-ticket infrastructure-software market dominated by Microsoft and others.
The open-source movement has already rewritten the rules for how software is licensed and used. Now the computer services market is changing to keep up.
Sun Microsystems will release a free version of its Java application server, a move designed to encourage more developers to build programs on the software foundation.
Open-source software has already shaken up the operating systems business. Now, Java server software makers are feeling the heat.
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