| The open source symposium was held at Taj | | | | optimizing and increasing utilization of computing |
| Residency, Bangalore on 17th and 18th October, | | | | systems. They declined to comment about the |
| 2006. The event was conducted by Red Hat, | | | | licensing of the operating system. They can charge |
| sponsored by AMD and the research data was based | | | | per operating system (if 3 operating system |
| on IDC's research and surveys. The speakers talked | | | | instances are run on one machine, they can charge |
| about the trends in the industry, the business and | | | | for 3 licenses) or per hardware (this is independent |
| revenue model of Red Hat, how open source can be | | | | of how many operating system you have installed in |
| applied to architecture, software, middleware and | | | | a pc). |
| hardware. | | | | Red Hat's acquisition of JBoss: |
| Right now the open source developer participation | | | | This move is strategically poised to improve the |
| from APAC region and India in specific is miniscule. | | | | presence of Red Hat in the middleware. They |
| They spread some awareness about Red Hat open | | | | wanted to deliver a full server application stack. JBoss |
| source platform and threw some light on how to | | | | provides a very rich set of applications, J2EE server, |
| participate in the open source community and how | | | | portal, development IDE, transaction management |
| we all can benefit from this model. | | | | etc. This gives Red Hat a middleware stack that |
| According to IDC's recent research, enterprise | | | | beats their competition by thousands of dollars. JBoss |
| adoption of open source has grown manifold; | | | | makes more sense here and it will become their de |
| companies worldwide are increasing investment in | | | | facto application server. They will be able to do some |
| open source technologies. Today enterprises have | | | | really tight integration and give their customers an |
| started benefiting from the quality, license cost | | | | out-of-the-box J2EE solution that should perform |
| savings and flexibility of open source. Beyond profit | | | | really well. It is still not known whether JBoss will be |
| margin of open source adoption, there was also | | | | bundled with Red Hat as of now. |
| discussion about backing open standards, | | | | SystemTap |
| contributions for open source community. | | | | SystemTap, a Red Hat utility allows developers and |
| Some of the interesting topics are given in detail | | | | administrators to write scripts for deep examinations |
| below: | | | | of Dynamic Linux Kernel activities. Data may be |
| The Power of Choice: Open Source Architecture | | | | filtered, extracted, and summarized quickly to enable |
| The long term vision of Open Source Architecture is | | | | diagnoses of complex problems. |
| built on open standards and interoperability. The Open | | | | JBoss Operations Network (JBoss ON) |
| Source architecture delivers a suite of standards | | | | JBoss ON is a console based advanced management |
| based technologies and services, allowing open source | | | | platform for inventorying, administering, monitoring, |
| and traditional software applications to be co-existed | | | | and updating JEMS applications. Jboss ON is an |
| and can be deployed on reliable, secure, scalable and | | | | agent-based platform that is deployed locally. |
| highly performing platforms. To the enterprise, it is | | | | The most important JBoss ON Modules are: |
| the power to assemble and dissemble the | | | | Inventory, allows you to catalog IT assets spanning |
| architecture, software, middleware, hardware and | | | | platforms (Linux, HP/UX, Solaris, Windows, AIX), |
| applications that fulfill the goals of the business. | | | | servers (Apache Web Server, Apache Tomcat, |
| Open Source Software (OSS): | | | | JBoss AS), and services (EJB, Message Driven Beans, |
| With OSS, the code is protected by a special license | | | | data sources). Assets can be added manually or |
| GNU General Public License (GPL) that ensures | | | | auto-discovered providing enhanced visibility over |
| everyone has access to code. That means no one | | | | your critical business applications including their |
| company can fully own it. You can see the code, | | | | versions and dependencies. |
| change it and learn from it. Bugs are more quickly | | | | Administration provides a single location for |
| found and fixed. And when customers don't like how | | | | performing key control functions such as start, stop, |
| one vendor is serving them, they can choose another | | | | and re-start across the entire JEMS platform. |
| without overhauling their infrastructure. No more | | | | Administration functions can be applied to a single |
| technology lock-in. No more monopolies. | | | | application or across an enterprise cluster. Operations |
| The marriage between SOA (Service oriented | | | | can also be scheduled for later dates, on-demand or |
| architecture or software as a service) and OSS | | | | on a recurring basis. This module also allows you to |
| though not revolutionary because of the weight of | | | | roll-back to previous versions if necessary. |
| the IT legacy, is surely evolving gradually. The CEO's | | | | Monitoring provides extensive monitoring capabilities |
| and CIO's are not happy with the vendor lock-in and | | | | for the JEMS platform along with supporting |
| the tight integration of their architecture and the | | | | components such as operating systems (Windows, |
| prize they pay. This problem is very well addressed | | | | Linux, and UNIX), Apache Tomcat, Apache Web |
| by SOA and OSS. | | | | Server and any JEMS-based applications. The |
| The second day was Red Hat Developer Day; it was | | | | Monitoring Module continuously builds and updates a |
| aimed to bring together Linux developers and users | | | | model of behavior of every measurement being |
| to help grow open source technologies. Red Hat | | | | collected. This allows you to define alerts relevant to |
| provides a platform for improving development, | | | | the actual behavior of your infrastructure. Baselines |
| techniques, tools and standards through the sharing | | | | are also utilized to identify out of band problems. This |
| of technical knowledge and expertise. These efforts | | | | allows you to quickly identify resources within your |
| are to encourage open source development in India. | | | | infrastructure that require attention as well as get a |
| Red Hat is initiating the Red Hat Developer Program, | | | | historical view of what was happening at the time of |
| a community development program in India through | | | | the fault. |
| Red Hat 108. Red Hat 108 is a community of and for | | | | JBoss portal: |
| open source developers. | | | | JBoss Portal has a business friendly open source |
| The other topics covered are:- | | | | license that makes it free to download, use, embed, |
| Virtualization: | | | | and distribute. JBoss Portal provides a framework for |
| Virtualization means the operating system is isolated | | | | centralized and secure access to applications and |
| from the hardware it's running on. Several operating | | | | information, which fosters collaboration, streamlines |
| systems can run on one machine, and different | | | | business processes, and reduces costs. Since JBoss |
| workloads can be easily combined and moved. With | | | | Portal is based on open standards, it can incorporate |
| virtualization, you can: | | | | components into the Portal as standardized and |
| Move workloads from server to server. | | | | reusable Portlets. |
| Change hardware without retesting software | | | | The symposium also included topics about Red Hat |
| Allows isolation of failures and control access to data. | | | | Road Map, Lowering TCO and Increasing ROI with |
| Manipulate to maximize processing power and | | | | JEMS (JBoss Enterprise Management Suite), Security |
| capacity | | | | and ID Management, Red Hat Cluster Suite and Red |
| Have a safe, secure space for testing. | | | | Hat Global File System. |
| Virtualization technology can help lower costs by | | | | |