First up came remarks about the JBoss / Red Hat merger. This has infact proven to be a theme running through the event so far which is hardly surprising. The message that has been supplied is very much one of a merger of two non-conflicting vendors joining forces to unify their open source technology stacks. Although Red Hat had the Jonas application server already the point was made that JBoss has a broader product base making the adoption of JBoss into Red Hat highly appealing for them.
The JBoss Division are committed to staying platform independent and are looking for opportunities to integrate with other aspects of the Red Hat stack. They also made reference to the fact that 2/3 of all bug fixes for Release 4.0.5 came from the open source community, making it quite clear that the community is providing them with the help they need to compete against the likes of IBM, BEA and Oracle.
JBoss 5 is in beta and is currently expected to be production ready sometime around mid 2007. This is will include a raft of new features such as a replacement for the jmx-console. We can also expect a new version of the JBoss ON software which Demetri is establishing within Operations currently. A large number of the JBoss products will also see major enhancements as part of the release, and JBoss are currently back porting some of these into JBoss 4.0.5. Areas where we will benefit include JBossCache and Hibernate, but virtually every major JBoss product will see a considerable step change within the next 12 months from what I can see.
All in all then it came across that the two companies joined to better enable both to stand up against the other big players in the market. An area that I believe some significant advantage will be being sought is Virtualization. This has been mentioned several times both within this session and during others that I have attended. It looks as though Red Hat and JBoss are looking to the enterprise data centres to fuel a large part of their growth, which marks a serious shift into territories dominated by closed source vendors like IBM and BEA. Pure speculation I know, but it could be one of the big advantages that Red Hat provide. In the meantime JBoss are continuing to build up their application base with Single Sign On, Business Process Management and Rules Engine technologies (amongst others).
One final point which I suspect I will end up having to research after the event is ESB. According to the conference guide this is based on the Rosetta ESB which has been in production for 3 years already. Both ESB and SEAM have had a lot of air time at the conference.
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