Red Hat Buys MetaMatrix

April 26, 2007: Open source big wig Red Hat has purchased the data integration company MetaMatrix for an undisclosed sum.

Red Hat is aiming to build up the strength of its service orientated architecture with the deal, planning to bundle MetaMatrix's software with its JBoss middleware.

The company is already planning to make changes to MetaMatrix’s structure, reconfiguring the private company’s software sales to a subscription model instead of upfront payments as well as bringing their relative philosophy’s together under an open source model.

Red Hat says that MetaMatrix’s data management software aids with data migration as it decouples applications from their data sources and makes valuable data assets available as services in an SOA, freeing data from single application silos." The company says that the technology will be available under an open source license before the end of the year.

The deal is significant for a number of reasons, but one of the most prominent is the opportunities it raises for migration from Unix environments to Linux

“With many enterprises spending as much as 70% of their IT budget on maintaining stove-piped legacy applications, it's clear that proprietary application infrastructure vendors have failed to deliver relief for the CIO,” says Tim Yeaton, Senior Vice President of Enterprise Solutions for Red Hat. “By applying the attributes that made Red Hat Enterprise Linux the number one Unix migration platform to our JBoss Enterprise Middleware, Red Hat is providing customers a migration path to long-term value, choice, and control of their IT infrastructure."

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