The Other Side of Red Hat � an interview with Craig Muzilla
Jul 26, 2011, 01:07 (0 Talkback[s])
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"The middleware business here has been doing quite well. It's
been growing at about double the rate of the Linux business. It's a
big growth engine here at Red Hat. We had great strength in all
regions last year, including Japan, Brazil, and Latin America. Our
goal has been to build out a portfolio of middleware products that
would enable us to offer an alternative to proprietary middleware
stacks. We're offeirng ourselves as an alternative by enabling
companies to standardize on us, or to use us strategically. We've
introduced eight major new products in the last couple of years.
Now we have high speed messaging, business process management and
rules management. We have a portal offering, and a data
integrations offering. We've really been building out the
portfolio. Some of those are doing quite well, in particular the
integration products.
"The nature of the deals has changed too. Look at four years
ago. It was primarily about application servers. JBoss was usually
used pretty tactically, for Web-based applications and non-mission
critical applicaitons. Now companies have gotten more secure, and
they feel more comfortable with JBoss. The number of companies that
have migrated completely is lengthy. Nissan and NTT in Japan, Fed
Ex, Geico, Verizon, Ing, the New York Stock Exchange; they've all
standardized on JBoss now, and use it predominantly in their
organizations. They're migrating away from the big guys, the
proprietary Java stacks."
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