Red Hat-compatible products and open source communities compete against Oracle and SAP

David Zielenziger of IBTimes said a while ago that Red Hat hopes to make its products compatible with the open source community so that business users can add and manage data easily. This initiative from Red Hat will compete with Oracle and SAP in the business, including competition for contracts and market share, as well as competition among "big data" departments.

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Red Hat, an open source Linux software maker, said it plans to migrate most of its software and storage products to the open source community to accelerate the development of cloud applications for businesses around the world.

The company said its products will be compatible with the Apache Hadoop development community later this year to write applications for the "big data" world. The idea is to make structured data and unstructured data easier to use and analyze so that companies can manage it in traditional databases.

Ranga Rangachari, general manager of storage operations at Red Hat, said: "Our product requirements for open source software are mature." The Raleigh, North Carolina, company plans to work with major businesses and systems later this year Integrator announced the establishment of a partnership.

Red Hat's embrace of the Apache Hadoop open source community poses challenges for Oracle and German SAP companies, including competition for contracts and market share, as well as competition between "big data" departments.

Analysts at IDC, a market research firm, expect the value of the Big Data application to explode from $ 6 billion in 2011 to $ 23.8 billion.

According to Rangachari, Red Hat believes Big Data is most interested in its key customers in industries such as finance, insurance, retail and entertainment. The company will design some cloud-based solutions in the public cloud and will move them internally Further development.

Rangachari said Red Hat's software, including JBoss Middleware, will allow customers to do this without having to spend additional money rewriting the application.

Rangachari said that in general, businesses might provide a cloud-based service test through Amazon's AWS before deciding to develop more in-house services. Big Data may become a killer app for open hybrid cloud computing.

Last December, Red Hat spent 104 million U.S. dollars buying ManageIQ. ManageIQ is a software company specializing in cloud management systems designed to complement Red Hat's CloudForms offerings. The software allows companies to build a hybrid cloud that encompasses all of their infrastructures while still managing cloud applications without vendor lock-in.

In the 20 trading, Red Hat shares rose 52 cents to 54.46 US dollars. Oracle shares fell to 35.38 US dollars, down 3 cents.