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Red Hat’s JBoss Buys Consulting Firm |
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Wednesday, 12 March 2008 |
The company that is striving to shed its outlaw image to convince enterprises that it’s safe to migrate to the little open source middleware platform that could has added a consulting firm as the next pillar in that strategy. Red Hat’s JBoss has acquired Amentra , a 140-person firm that was already one of its certified integrators.
The acquisition helps flesh out JBoss’s Enterprise Acceleration program , an effort to spur migration to JBoss, which included a consulting component. It was part of a strategy announced by recently-anointed Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst at JBoss World last month for JBoss to grab half of all middleware workloads by 2015. Amentra, which has offices in Richmond, Virginia; Washington, DC; Philadelphia; Charlotte; and Tampa, currently has 40 clients across several verticals (they haven’t specialized). For what it’s worth, the company has won several industry citations for fast growth, among them Ernst & Young’s 2007 for Entrepreneur of the Year award, and the Deloitte Technology Fast 500 for the last three years. It will be run as a separate business unit, and according to company spokespeople, should “in most respects will operate the same as it did prior to the acquisition.” |
