DAILY NEWS AND INFORMATION FOR THE GLOBAL GRID COMMUNITY / AUGUST 11, 2003; VOL. 2 NO. 32    ( Table of Contents )

Breaking News - Operating Systems & Middleware:

ObjectWeb Welcomes Red Hat

ObjectWeb, the international consortium focused on open-source middleware, 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 ObjectWeb's 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."

ObjectWeb and Red Hat to share a same vision

"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 Hat's 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 Laisne, ObjectWeb's Vice-President.

Red Hat adopts JOnAS as its Open Source implementation of J2EE

Loyal to Open Standards, JOnAS 3.2 is designed to provide the functionality set forth in the J2EE(TM) 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.