“Red Hat is the world’s best-known Linux distributor, but with
its acquisition of JBoss, completed on June 5, it also wants to
become a well-known service-oriented architecture company.“The Raleigh, N.C.-based Linux distributor announced on April 10
that it had entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the
open-source Java middleware company after months of rumors that
JBoss had been looking for a buyer…”