As Red Hat and its JBoss unit ramp up their SOA (service-oriented architectures) offerings and capabilities, they are re-emerging as a powerful mischief-maker to the established commercial vendors -- this time on the subject of data lifecycle in the age of SOA. But there soon could be much more mischief from Raleigh, N.C.

Red Hat has announced a series of SOA-focused bundles of open source Latest News about open source products and associated services, as well as the acquisition of enterprise information integration Free 30-Day Trial. Seamlessly Integrate UNIX & Linux systems with Active Directory. (EII) vendor MetaMatrix for an undisclosed fee.

MetaMatrix's proprietary software provides a data services layer that decouples applications from their data sources, but Red Hat plans to move MetaMatrix to an open source license and a subscription model in less than a year.

Herein lies the mischief. If Red Hat can offer a capable EII product set in open source and spur on community development energies that attract more types of data and applications/services, then that puts pressure on the race for the best strategic data services layer approach for SOA.

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