SOA Software announced that it is partnering with Red Hat in a company press release.

"Now, enterprises deploying SOA applications on Red Hat's JBoss Enterprise Middleware can take advantage of SOA Software's Service Manager™ and WorkBench™ products for critical governance, security, management, and mediation functions. JBoss Enterprise Middleware is an extensible set of leading open source software for creating and deploying modern applications such as Web applications, rich Internet applications, and Web Services. The added capabilities of the SOA Software Infrastructure Suite further strengthen JBoss Enterprise Middleware as the open source foundation for enterprise-wide managed SOA deployments.

“The era of Open Source SOA is here,” said Roberto Medrano, executive vice president of SOA Software. “And this partnership is evidence that innovative solutions are available today. Our large customers are increasingly searching for complete SOA solutions extending beyond the conventional large platform vendor universe, and our partnership with JBoss fills that need very nicely. This is a great opportunity for SOA Software, a move that signals that maturing position of open source SOA in the enterprise.”

“With our Open Source Architecture, Red Hat is driving out costs in the enterprise and accelerating the shift to SOA,” said Shaun Connolly, vice president of product management, JBoss Division, Red Hat. “Partners like SOA Software are essential to our goal of delivering maximum value, choice, and interoperability to our customers. The critical SOA governance features that SOA Software is bringing to the table will further extend the value of Red Hat's integrated Open Source Architecture.”

"Customers can use SOA Software Infrastructure Suite with JBoss Application Server today. In the future, SOA Software will extend its support to JBoss ESB. SOA Software's Service Manager and WorkBench deliver capabilities such as authentication and authorization, privacy and non-repudiation, lifecycle management and workflow, provisioning and contract management, mediation and interoperability of heterogeneous platforms, quality of service, routing, high-availability, and load-balancing."

JBoss Session at SOA World Conference & Expo
Open Source has made signficant inroads into middleware deployments in the enterprise. More and more, open source is being used to deliver the benefits of SOA and open source to enterprise. This session explores where open source is getting the most traction in SOA deployments and illustrates this by describing some of the customer SOA solutions the speaker sees at Red Hat

Speaker Bio: Pierre Fricke is Director of Product Line Management for Red Hat's JBoss Portal and SOA products. Starting with JBoss Portal and jBPM in 2005, he led the product strategy and management expansion into the integration and SOA market with JBoss Rules, Messaging and Enterprise Service Bus. Today, these products are the unit volume market leader or emerging strong challengers to long-time incumbents. He started working on UNIX at IBM in 1983 as one of the first AIX developers, building experience in data management, operating systems, communication programs, development processes, and customer support. After holding several software development management positions and completing his MBA at the University of Texas in Austin, he became one of the leading strategists and marketing leaders in IBM focusing on interoperability, integration, WebSphere, Windows NT, UNIX, as well as Linux and open source. He led the creation of IBM's "Compete, Leverage, and Interoperate" Windows NT strategy after OS/2 was discontinued abd was one of the eight original leaders on the team that lead IBM into Linux and open source in 1998 and 1999. In 2000, Fricke joined D. H. Brown Associates, a research analyst firm, as VP of Application and Integration Infrastructure.