August 15th, 2004
Red Hat app server brings open-source economics to Web services
Nemertes Research suggests that RedHat’s open-source application server is an indication that open-source software is moving deeper into the data center and is changing the economics of enterprise software:
This week’s announcement by Red Hat Inc. of the availability of Red Hat Application Server, its open-source application server, highlights the gathering momentum of open-source technologies in the area of enterprise application infrastructure, including application servers, web services, SOA. Together with IBM’s earlier release of Eclipse, an open-source development platform, and the announcement earlier this month by IBM that it intends to open-source Cloudscape, a lightweight database for Java, this announcement illustrates an increasing willingness of large vendors to embrace open source for development of enterprise applications—dramatically lowering costs for end users and enabling increased application interoperability.
