Linux supplier Red Hat has completed the acquisition of
open source middleware firm JBoss in a deal worth £187m, plus an
extra £38m if future sales targets are met.
The deal will bring together Red Hat’s enterprise infrastructure
portfolio with standards-based middleware technologies, in a move
the companies say will help accelerate the shift to open source
service oriented architectures.
The acquisition will cause waves among software suppliers,
according to Goldman Sachs.
The investment banking and research firm said the
acquisition
“begins Red Hat’s migration up the infrastructure software stack
and leads it into direct competition with Oracle and IBM, two
important partners of Red Hat”.
