Vitria Technology, Inc., a provider of business process integration solutions, and Red Hat, an open source solutions provider, have announced a collaboration to accelerate service-oriented architecture (SOA) solutions to the marketplace. Vitria will offer Red Hat’s open source JBoss Enterprise Application Platform with Business Accelerator, its newly launched open SOA integration suite. Both companies will provide service and support.

Business Accelerator aligns today’s business need for speed with IT’s need to implement the “right” technology. It offers freedom of choice and flexibility to build a best-of-breed solution by leveraging Vitria’s experience in business process integration software, technology capabilities provided by industry-leading partners, as well as the customer’s existing infrastructure. JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, launched by Red Hat, is an integrated, tested, and certified offering combining JBoss Application Server, Hibernate, and JBoss Seam into a single distribution for deploying and hosting applications and Web services.