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Aeolus–A New Open Source Multi-cloud Management Solution
Aeolus is an open source project intended to provide solutions for managing packs of virtual machines across various private and public clouds. The project has been started by Red Hat, but they do not want to own the project, inviting other companies to join forces with them in creating an open cloud management solution.
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Red Hat's jBPM5 Brings a New API, New Tooling and Support for BPMN 2.0
Red Hat's JBoss division recently announced the latest release of their Business Process Management System jBPM 5.0. It includes a completely revamped API, and adds a number of key features including support for the BPMN 2.0 specification, Eclipse tooling for developers, and web-based tooling for business users. InfoQ spoke to Kris Verlaenen, jBPM project lead, to find out more about the release.
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Red Hat Acquires PaaS Cloud Provider Makara
This week, Red Hat announced it acquired Makara, a cloud based platform as a service company. Makara is unusual among PaaS providers in that it doesn't have any infrastructure of its own. InfoQ examines some of the details about where Makara differs from other providers.
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Red Hat Expands its Cloud Strategy
Last week, Red Hat released a comprehensive Cloud strategy aiming at increasing interoperability between Clouds and portability of applications from one Cloud to another. Red Hat also submitted its APIs to the Apache DeltaCloud initiative.
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Standards and Open Source for Cloud Computing
Three recent announcements highlight the evolving cloud ecosystem in favor of openness and standards. Red Hat has moved its Deltacloud effort to the Apache Incubator, Rackspace has made its Cloud Files code open source, and the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) has released two documents laying out the essential functions for cloud computing and descriptive language for them.
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JBoss Developer Studio 2.0 released
Earlier this week, RedHat announced the availability of JBoss Developer Studio 2.0 which provides a complete package of Eclipse along with the JBoss Enterprise Application, Portal, SOA and Data Services platforms. The solution provides a robust, integrated development environment for rich web applications and mission critical enterprise applications in a single package.
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Red Hat and Microsoft Get Together in the Virtualization Arena
Red Hat has announced an agreement with Microsoft to support each other’s guests on their virtualization servers including coordinated technical support.
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Microsoft Joins AMQP Working Group
Microsoft Corp. joined the Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP) Working Group, an organization focused on the development of the AMQP specification.
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RedHat Shifts Virtualization Strategy from Xen to KVM
Last week at the Red Hat Summit, Red Hat announced a new hypervisor based on KVM. This announcement is particularly interesting given Red Hat's previous support of the Xen hypervisor.
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Red Hat Joins Open JDK Community
Red Hat announced that it is joining the OpenJDK project and has licensed the OpenJDK Community Test Compatibility Kit (TCK).
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JBoss RichFaces 3.1: Ajax4JSF and Exadel RichFaces integrated as single open source library
JBoss, a division of RedHat, recently released version 3.1 of the RichFaces JSF library. Stemming from a partnership with Exadel, this release is the first one to integrate the Ajax4JSF project with the formerly commercial RichFaces. InfoQ took the opportunity to learn more about RichFaces and what this release brings to the JSF space.
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Enterprise Application Platform 4.2: First JBoss release under RedHat support model
JBoss, a division of RedHat, recently announced the first release of their Enterprise Application Platform (EAP), which is based off of JBoss Application Server 4.2. InfoQ took the opportunity to learn more about this release and the potential changes it brings.
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RedHat Releases Exadel Studio Plugins as Open Source
Today JBoss introduced the Exadel Eclipse plug-ins to its JBoss Tools project. The introduction of the Exadel plug-ins is the first step toward delivering Red Hat Developer Studio, an open source integrated development environment (IDE), later this summer.
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RedHat and Exadel Open Source Exadel Studio Pro as Red Hat Developer Studio
RedHat and Exadel have announced that they are open sourcing and rebranding Exadel Studio Pro as Red Hat Developer Studio. Exadel is also open sourcing its commercial RichFaces and consolidating its Ajax4jsf project at Red Hat's jboss.org as JBoss RichFaces and JBoss Ajax4jsf, respectively.
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Red Hat splits JBoss development tree, acquires MetaMatrix
Red Hat made two big announcements today at a press conference about their middleware strategy. First, they're separating JBoss into two branches, similar to what they did with Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Fedora. Secondly, they have acquired all the assets of MetaMatrix, provider of federated data services and metadata management to boost their SOA offerings.