Vitria Technology and Red Hat 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 proven expertise 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 today 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.

"We give customers the freedom to choose individual SOA components to create the best solution for their particular needs," commented Dale Skeen, Chief Executive Officer of Vitria. "The new Vitria products are designed to co-exist in a heterogeneous environment so customers can leverage their existing infrastructure investments. The addition of JBoss to our community of complementary solutions enables us to ensure that customers have the ability to choose the best of breed when they choose our products."

"Vitria has a long history of enabling enterprises to leverage the Internet for agile business and transformation, so we're pleased that the next generation of their business process integration solution will leverage our JBoss Enterprise Application Platform," said Pierre Fricke, director of product line management, SOA Products, Red Hat. "We look forward to working closely with Vitria to bring Business Accelerator to market and deliver an exceptional customer experience."

Open Source Penetration and Use in SOA Deployments
Pierre Fricke will deilver a session at the upcoming 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.