Enterprise Open Source News

Using open source as a distribution model is a very efficient strategy when well executed. Alfresco in the DMS/ECM world has been taking incredible market shares in just 2 years, as MySQL did in the RDBMs world. Many domains have now their open source challenger: Montavista in the embedded World, Digium with Asterisk [...]

Red Hat today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire JBoss. By acquiring JBoss, Red Hat expects to increase its footprint in the application integration market. This deal is a heavy proof that the application server market is more and more commoditized. IBM will probably be able to handle that, but [...]