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Red Hat's acquisition of JBoss signals a more aggressive move into middleware and a new era of business maturity for open source software. This deal means that the industry is headed for a period of remarkable growth for open source, and it will be led by the JBoss Java middleware platform. The two companies' partners will go through some subtle realignment, but the competitive picture among them won't change much until the JBoss service-oriented architecture (SOA) platform reaches maturity in a few years. What does change is that customers now have a strong open source brand in middleware that they can rely on when making a purchase decision. Customers view Red Hat as a credible supplier for mission-critical applications, a perception that will help JBoss gain entry into more applications of this kind.

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