Red Hat on Thursday revealed a JBoss middleware project aimed at displacing BEA's Tuxedo transaction-monitoring engine, which has a significant legacy install base.
At its JBoss World conference in Orlando, Red Hat unveiled JBoss BlackTie, a project for integrating Java and legacy-based distributed transaction-processing environments. The new product will complement and extend the current JBoss transaction-monitor project, JBoss.org Transactions, through the addition of C, C++, and mainframe-compatible transaction capabilities, according to Red Hat.
JBoss, the open source middleware company purchased by Red Hat in April 2006, already had built its reputation by commoditizing the Java-based application server market once dominated by BEA's WebLogic, which soon will become an Oracle product once the software vendor completes its purchase of BEA.
Now JBoss aims to go after the Tuxedo install base, which Sacha Labourey, vice president of engineering middleware at Red Hat JBoss, said represents "tens of millions" of dollars in revenue opportunity. "BlackTie is about helping companies migrate away from one of the key legacy lock-ins out there, Tuxedo," he said.
The BlackTie project will focus on building technology that can emulate transaction-processing monitor APIs, such as the ones for Tuxedo, and can provide open source legacy services such as security, naming, clustering, and transactions. According to Red Hat, the project is aimed at giving enterprise users the opportunity to easily integrate their C, C++, and mainframe applications into JBoss Java-based environments.
Code for the BlackTie project will be available in about 60 days. Eventually, Red Hat will offer its own enterprise version of both BlackTie and the JBoss Transactions projects.
Red Hat has been trying to integrate the JBoss Java-based middleware with its Linux business to become a multiproduct company. News this week at its JBoss World conference is aimed at dispelling the notion that Red Hat can't move beyond its Linux roots to offer an entire portfolio of open source products for application development, integration, management, and the like.
JBoss gave its software away and charged for consulting and services. Red Hat has a ".org" community version of its Linux product for anyone to use, as well as a more robust enterprise version for large-scale deployments. The company is taking the same approach with JBoss by having JBoss.org community for open source and freely available products, and the JBoss enterprise middleware products that have fees attached to them. The BlackTie project falls under the former category.
In addition to BlackTie, Red Hat also Thursday unveiled the global availability of its JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform, which originally was expected to be available by the end of last year.
The JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform includes JBoss ESB, which comprises integration, transformation, and a registry and repository for services. IT also includes service orchestration and workflow with the JBoss jBPM product and business policy and rules management and integration with the JBoss Rules product. The JBoss SOA platform is aimed at competing with proprietary SOA infrastructure from companies such as Microsoft, Oracle, and IBM, and is part of JBoss' enterprise middleware offerings.
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