JBoss Puts Another Block On The Open Source Stack

This won’t exactly smooth out strained relations. Red Hat’s JBoss unit, a potential competitor with Oracle and IBM middleware, will announce this week that it’s offering an enterprise service bus, continuing its rapid build-out of an open source middleware stack.

…JBoss’ product is based on the Rosetta ESB created by Aviva Canada, Canada’s second-largest insurer. Aviva built that ESB when it encountered integration problems rolling out Oracle Financials, before Oracle’s Fusion Middleware was available. Aviva, a big user of JBoss Application Server, donated Rosetta ESB to JBoss, jump-starting its service bus offering.

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