ObjectWeb welcomes Red Hat

ObjectWeb, the international consortium focused on open-source middleware, today announced that Red Hat, the world's premier provider of enterprise Linux solutions, has joined the consortium.

San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) August 9, 2003 -- ObjectWeb, the international consortium focused on open-source middleware, today announced that Red Hat, the world's premier provider of enterprise Linux solutions, has joined the consortium.

Both partners have already demonstrated their ability to provide industrial-grade Open Source platforms. Red Hat is committed to contribute to ObjectWeb's component code base, which will contribute significantly to the global sustainability of ObjectWebs community effort.

"The ObjectWeb consortium is honored to welcome Red Hat as a corporate member", said Christophe Ney, President of the ObjectWeb Executive Committee. This is a major recognition of ObjectWeb's strategic position for the future of middleware".

"Red Hat and ObjectWeb share the same vision of Open Source undergoing a major evolution and becoming the solution of choice for mission-critical enterprise applications", says Paul Cormier, Red Hat Executive Vice President of Engineering. Linux has freed the infrastructure. Open Source middleware is the logical next step", he added.

JOnAS, de facto, provides business-critical application developers with Open Source components that allow them to build business-critical, distributed applications with high-level quality, robustness and optimal price/performance ratios.

"Red Hats move demonstrates that a non-profit organization like ObjectWeb has a major role to play in the new Supplier/Customer relationship as set-up by Open Source", says Jean-Pierre Laisné, ObjectWeb's Vice-President.

Red Hat adopts JOnAS as its Open Source implementation of J2EETM. Loyal to Open Standards, JOnAS 3.2 is designed to provide the functionality set forth in the J2EETM 1.3 specification. The integration of the CAROL ObjectWeb component allows the use of new communication protocols. This new version of JOnAS provides legacy database support for CMP2. Clustering at the EJB level is also available. New security features have been introduced (JAAS login modules, unified user management between JOnAS and the Web container). A web-based management console is embedded. JOnAS plug ins for JBuilder (Kelly) and Eclipse (JOPE) are also available on the ObjectWeb forge.

JOnAS development is based on a true Open Source model under the collaborative efforts of the ObjectWeb community and, more specifically, that of the numerous highly-skilled professionals.

About ObjectWeb:
Founded by Bull, France Telecom and INRIA, ObjectWeb is a consortium of leading worldwide enterprises and research organizations that have joined efforts to produce next generation Open Source Middleware. ObjectWeb's goal is to bring to Real-Time Enterprise independence, quality, and robustness with the best performance/cost ratio that it requires. ObjectWeb targets alternative solutions to proprietary products addressing e-business, EAI, data connectivity, grid computing, and enterprise messaging.

Based on Open Standards, ObjectWeb's middleware includes application servers, components, frameworks and tools. Examples of ObjectWeb's "cost killer" middleware are JOnAS - an Open Source implementation of J2EETM specification, JORAM JMS - a Message Oriented Middleware and Enhydra - Java/XML Application Server.

To learn more about ObjectWeb, visit our web site at http://www.objectweb.org.