Red Hat Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire JBoss

from Yahoo:

"RALEIGH, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 10, 2006--Red Hat, Inc. (NASDAQ: RHAT - News), the world's leading provider of open source solutions to the enterprise, today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire JBoss, the global leader in open source middleware. By acquiring JBoss, Red Hat expects to accelerate the shift to service-oriented architectures (SOA), by enabling the next generation of web-enabled applications running on a low-cost, open source platform."

The battle is heating up and both sides are gearing up... soon, it will be muscle for muscle... i wonder, what would this new acquisition do to the IT market.

its just either or..

either people would embrace this new change..

or jump to a new technology bandwagon...

in the end of the day.. its always the developers who are going to win.. :)

but thats just my optimism.

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