“Red Hat’s planned acquisition of JBoss has raised questions
about the future of the Jonas application server, the best-known
project to emerge from Europe’s ObjectWeb open-source software
consortium.“Red Hat joined ObjectWeb three years ago and helped the
nonprofit group to get Jonas certified compliant with Sun
Microsystems’s Java Enterprise Edition 1.4 specification. It now
distributes a version of Jonas as the Red Hat Application Server,
part of its effort to move beyond Linux operating systems
sales…”