Red Hat seems to be all over the news these days! The company wants to make its JBoss middleware solution as popular as its Linux software in the enterprise world. Red Hat commits new sales, marketing and technical resources to accelerate the adoption of JBoss among the largest corporations.

Craig Muzilla, vice president of Red Hat's Middleware Business, has stated at the JBoss World conference in Orlando, Florida, that the company hopes to make JBoss a major part of 50% of all enterprise software infrastructure deployments by 2015. He considers this a realistic goal, that could be achieved.

Red Hat presented a plan which includes opening technology acceleration centers, adding sales and marketing support and putting together an enterprise-class middleware stack. This stack would consist of JBoss and other open source solutions for management, application integration and development. Red Hat bought JBoss in April 2006, and since then it has been trying to integrate the middleware with its Linux business to become a multi-product company.

The same business model used for Red Hat will be used for JBoss, to boost it in enterprises. This strategy worked well for Red Hat Linux Enterprise - RHEL - and might turn out well for JBoss, too. Red Hat will offer a stack of JBoss middleware that will include existing products like JBoss Application Server, JBoss Cache, JBoss Transactions, JBoss Messaging, JBoss Clustering and some other open source products. The stack will be tested and certified by Red Hat, to ensure that its pieces work properly and can sustain large-scale enterprise deployments.

When the new technology labs for JBoss are open, customers will be able to use them to test Red Hat's JBoss stack. It seems that Red Hat will also build centers for a specific task. Muzilla said that "Performance will be one lab, interoperability will be another."