JBoss Building New Community Site with Magnolia

Red Hat is a leading technology vendor for its Linux platform and JBoss middleware lines of business. Though it has tremendous in-house technical expertise, Red Hat is actually going to a third party vendor for the technology needed to build the Web content management system for the new JBoss.org community website.

In so doing, Red Hat is leaving its own content management efforts behind and embracing the open source Magnolia content management system. In choosing to use Magnolia, Red Hat took the same path that many open source customers do: They simply downloaded the application and tried it out for free before ever contacting the vendor.

The move to Magnolia is proof positive that not only is Red Hat an open source vendor, but they’re an open source consumer as well. It could also be a harbinger of a potential new business vertical for Red Hat in the content management space.

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