RedHat takes over JBoss to consider new profits

DoNews November 16 Beijing News (Reporter Liu gorgeous compilation) in order to improve revenue from the JBoss service software, RedHat (Red Hat) is considering dividing its products into two versions: A free version without service support and a paid service support version. Although there is only one JBoss version, RedHat has started selling support services since the company was acquired in May. CharliePeters, chief financial officer, told a DoNews on Tuesday in Beijing on August 18 (Reporter Liu huaxiao compiled) that Red Hat (Red Hat) can improve revenue from JBoss service software) we are considering dividing our products into two versions: a free version without service support and a paid service support version.
Although there is only one JBoss version, Red Hat has started selling support services since it acquired the company in December. Chief Financial Officer Charlie Peters told a UBS Financial Conference on Tuesday that the company is considering accepting two versions based on the previous Linux profit model.
Red Hat will face increasingly fierce competition with Oracle and Novell and make money from JBoss under this pressure. Up to now, nearly 0.11 billion copies of software have been downloaded for free, but only a few paying users, Peters explained.
"Our chance to make a profit is that we can use these technologies to create the same environment for Linux use in an intermediate software, and try to persuade users to switch from free to paid for their high-value services ."
Currently, it includes a variety of open-source software such as Linux operating systems, and intermediate software such as JBoss used to run JAVA programs on servers. Users can download the software for free. Therefore, open-source software is facing the challenges of commercialization.
Red Hat has developed a Linux profit strategy in detail, and has provided a free and fast-updated Fedora version and its service support, the subsequent stable version is named "Red Hat Enterprise Edition Linux ".
Although the open source code of RHEL is provided free of charge, only users who have subscribed to Red Hat can run binary software on their computers. This paid version is also a long-term operation of Red Hat.
Peters said that JBoss will try to adopt a feasible development model, such as the RHEL-Fedora model. "We are still working on this new JBoss model. We believe that we can convert more free JBoss users into paying subscribers ." (End) DoNews November 16 Beijing News (Reporter Liu gorgeous compilation) in order to improve revenue from the JBoss service software, Red Hat (Red Hat) is considering dividing its products into two versions: A free version without service support and a paid service support version.
Although there is only one JBoss version, Red Hat has started selling support services since it acquired the company in December. Chief Financial Officer Charlie Peters told a UBS Financial Conference on Tuesday that the company is considering accepting two versions based on the previous Linux profit model.
Red Hat will face increasingly fierce competition with Oracle and Novell and make money from JBoss under this pressure. Up to now, nearly 0.11 billion copies of software have been downloaded for free, but only a few paying users, Peters explained.
"Our chance to make a profit is that we can use these technologies to create the same environment for Linux use in an intermediate software, and try to persuade users to switch from free to paid for their high-value services ."
Currently, it includes a variety of open-source software such as Linux operating systems, and intermediate software such as JBoss used to run JAVA programs on servers. Users can download the software for free. Therefore, open-source software is facing the challenges of commercialization.
Red Hat has developed a Linux profit strategy in detail, and has provided a free and fast-updated Fedora version and its service support, the subsequent stable version is named "Red Hat Enterprise Edition Linux ".
Although the open source code of RHEL is provided free of charge, only users who have subscribed to Red Hat can run binary software on their computers. This paid version is also a long-term operation of Red Hat.
Peters said that JBoss will try to adopt a feasible development model, such as the RHEL-Fedora model. "We are still working on this new JBoss model. We believe that we can convert more free JBoss users into paying subscribers ." (End)