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DAILY NEWS AND INFORMATION
FOR THE GLOBAL GRID COMMUNITY / SEPTEMBER 29, 2003: VOL. 2 NO. 39
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Breaking News - Operating Systems
& Middleware:
Open Source Architecture To Create
A Scalable Enterprise
Red Hat Inc, the world's premier open source software provider, announced a
long-term statement of direction to create a comprehensive and flexible
enterprise architecture driven by open source technology. Drawing from
community planning, technology round-tables and customer meetings, Red Hat's
Open Source Architecture will provide value to the customer through a
completely standards-based open source infrastructure with a focus on
management and broad applications support across multiple hardware
environments.
Enterprise customers often resort to costly, inflexible solutions from
proprietary vendors as they look to build or upgrade infrastructure for
deploying and managing business applications. Frequently, key infrastructure
solutions are sourced from disparate entities with no commonality, which leads
to greater complexity and higher management costs. Red Hat's Open Source
Architecture will provide a secure, scalable and manageable infrastructure for
deploying enterprise business applications, allowing customers to extend the
unique value and control offered by the open source approach throughout their
organization.
The Open Source Architecture will be built on standards-based, open source
technology. Solutions that are standards based enable interoperability
throughout an organization, simplify migration and permit breadth of available
solutions. Red Hat will drive to s timulate broad participation and
collaboration by ISV, IHV and Open Source communities. Customers embracing the
Open Source Architecture will have the benefit of high performance at a low
cost with vendor independence. A modular environment designed to satisfy more
pieces of the enterprise infrastructure without vendor lock-in will be the end
result.
"Red Hat is making Open Source Architecture the guiding point for our
development roadmap and business focus. We will work to ensure developers and
vendors have the resources needed to base their solutions on open source ,"
said Paul Cormier, executive vice president of engineering at Red Hat. "A
hierarchy of common software components will enable technologies to be layered
modularly resulting in great scalability and manageability throughout an
entire organization's infrastructure. With an Open Source Architecture model,
the customer becomes the clear winner."
The first phase in building an Open Source Architecture is the platform
layer.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 will act as the unifying platform, and will support
seven hardware architectures for both client and server deployments. Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 3 was developed with an emphasis on performance, scalability,
availability and standards support. Red Hat Network is the delivery mechanism
for this technology.
The second phase will address other key areas of infrastructure including a
Web applications framework. Working with the ObjectWeb consortium, the Apache
Software Foundation and the Eclipse IDE development community, Red Hat has
been contributing to the development of an open source Web applications
framework, J2EE implementation and associated development tools.
Lastly, the third phase will focus on integrated virtualization and
management
capabilities with the goal of maximizing system utilization and lowering TCO.
System virtualization will encompass storage, system provisioning and
application resource management in an on-demand, high-availability
environment.
The advancement of security technologies will be paramount in all phases of
Red Hat's open source architecture development. This will include
implementation of an enterprise-wide security infrastructure, providing a
seamless integration of multiple open source technologies such as access
control, single sign-on, identity management and authentication. To complement
these offerings, Red Hat will deliver subscription-based, global services that
aid in the design and deployment of a complete Open Source Architecture based
on the Red Hat Enterprise Linux platform. Red Hat Applications such as the
Content Management System and Portal Server are also based on the Red Hat
Enterprise Linux platform to extend enterprise productivity. Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 3 will be made available this quarter as part of a
subscription that includes Red Hat Network and services. Please visit
www.redhat.com for more
information.
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