Business Challenge: To replace an end-of-life proprietary system, IBM Websphere, with a standardized infrastructure; rewrite and deploy business critical applications by 2012, and reduce the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)
Solution: SFR selected JBoss Enterprise Application Platform to develop Java applications based on open source industry standards while remaining fully supported by a trusted partner
Software: Application servers: Solaris Sparc x86; Web servers: Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Oracle 10i
Hardware: 6 units HP DL580 G5 for customer service, 13 units HP DL 580 G5 for catalogue, and 4 units HP DL 580 G5 for order entry
Migration Path: Migrated from IBM Websphere and Oracle WebLogic
Benefits: SFR accelerated Java deployments compared to the previous Oracle WebLogic and IBM Websphere-based system. The quality of support has improved through shorter response times from the support teams.
Business Challenge: To create a state-of-the-art middleware infrastructure for a global shipment status processing system based on industry-standard hardware, while ensuring maximum flexibility by integrating it with existing components, cost effectiveness, and scalability
Migration Path: Proprietary HP-UX operating system running on mainframe servers to JBoss Enterprise Application Platform and Red Hat Enterprise Linux running on industry-standard x86 servers
Solutions: JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, Red Hat Consulting, Oracle WebLogic (for database access), Oracle 10 Database
Hardware: HP Proliant Servers
Benefits: Gained flexibility and the ability to accommodate new customer requests; saved more than 50 percent by migrating to the new base installation; realised even further cost savings when scaling the platform further to meet market demand; avoided lock-in to proprietary software licensing, hardware, and programming languages
“With Red Hat's open source subscription model, we can scale up and down easily without worrying about price per CPU creating unexpected extra costs. By migrating our Shipment Status Processing installation to JBoss Enterprise Middleware, we have saved around fifty percent compared to competitive software license models.”
-- Antonio Mastrolorito, Chief IT Architect, Lufthansa Cargo AG
Business challenge: Needed a single, common, and flexible platform that would simplify NYSE Euronext's application development, deployment, and management processes while still meeting mission-critical requirements for reliability, performance, and scalability
Migration path: Multiple application servers to JBoss Enterprise Application Platform and a legacy portal server to JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform
Software: JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform, Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Hardware: x86-based servers and blades
Benefits: Experienced 50-60 percent cost savings; simplified architecture, management, deployment, and usability by moving to JBoss Enterprise Middleware; increased performance, speed of deployment, flexibility, reliability, access to support, and control of the infrastructure; improved regulation and security; streamlined processes; reduced failovers and development lifecycles
Pull Quote: “We've been running mission-critical applications on Red Hat Enterprise Linux for a long time. It was that experience and those results that led us to consider JBoss Enterprise Middleware, and we're satisfied, and not surprised, knowing that Red Hat's middleware solutions are as enterprise-class as its platform solutions.”
- Brian Clark, chief software architect, NYSE Euronext
2010 JBoss Innovation Award Winner: Superior Alternatives Customer: State of Tennessee: Office for Information Resources (OIR)
Geography: US
Business Challenge: Implement a cost-effective, flexible middleware software, JBoss Enterprise Middleware, resulting in lower costs, increased performance and scaling for growth
Migration Path: Proprietary middleware software to JBoss Enterprise Application Platform
on Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, Red Hat Consulting,
Red Hat Training
Benefits: Substantial savings on hardware and licensing costs for all new deployments, increased and impressive performance, stability and reliability, higher availability, and excellent support Download case study PDF
Business Challenge: Replacing end-of-life proprietary system with a stable and reliable platform that would facilitate lower-cost hardware and ongoing savings on platform maintenance
Migration Path: From Sun Solaris running Sun One Application Server to JBoss Enterprise Application Platform and Tru64 UNIX servers running Oracle E-Business Financials, both on Red Hat Enterprise Linux on Dell servers. The six Solaris Sunfire V240 servers were replaced by the same number of Red Hat Enterprise Linux running on Dell hardware
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, JBoss Enterprise Application Platform
Hardware: 80 Dell servers, including four-node Red Hat cluster on Dell 2950s, front-ended with a load balancer
Benefits: Substantial savings on hardware and licensing costs for all new deployments and savings of approximately $200k on replaced Tru64 server licensing fees, increased and impressive performance, stability and reliability, higher availability, and excellent local support
Reduced Costs By Migrating Its Web Application Platform and Building a Customer Information Portal on JBoss Enterprise Middleware
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Customer: Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG (Heidelberg)
Industry: Printing & Publishing, Manufacturing and Mechanical Engineering
Geography: US, EMEA
Business Challenge: Establish a new customer specific portal to enhance its customer relationship and provide internal business units with valuable customer insight; Evaluate and deploy an application server platform for its Java-based environment
Solution: With the help of Red Hat Consulting, Heidelberg built an interactive customer portal using JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform and migrated its proprietary application platform to JBoss Enterprise Application Platform
Software: JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform, JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, Oracle 10g database, SAP R/3, Autonomy search engine, Interwoven TeamSite 6.5 (CMS), Microsoft Windows Server 2003 64-Bit
Hardware: Virtualized servers and F5 Load balancer
Partner: Maris IT Consulting
Migration path: Proprietary portal platform and application server to JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform and JBoss Enterprise Application Platform
Benefits: Improved customer web presence with a central portal that increased services and information available, provided ability to use applications based on open standards in order to interact better with customers, suppliers and partners, reduced costs, gained excellent support and continuous advancements of its portal software, and reduced vendor lock-in.
BUSINESS CHALLENGE: Existing proprietary middleware platform was complex to manage, not performing and scaling as expected and expensive to maintain. The architecture team decided to investigate alternatives that could be deployed that would better meet their needs.
MIGRATION PATH: Proprietary middleware platform to JBoss Enterprise Middleware
SOFTWARE: JBoss Enterprise Application Platform: 28 bands (1 band = 32 CPUs), JBoss Technical Account Manager (TAM), Red Hat Consulting, Amentra
HARDWARE: 50 Dell servers
BENEFITS: Reduced the total cost of ownership by more than 30%, throughput gain of 3X with utilization down to 1/3rd of the current platform, overall resource utilization went from above 50% to under 10% which allowed significant room for scalability without having to acquire additional hardware.
COMPANIES: Massachusetts Convention Center Authority (MCCA) and Optaros
CATEGORY: Extensive Ecosystem
INDUSTRY: Convention center management
GEOGRAPHY: Boston, MA
BUSINESS CHALLENGE: Manual processes and siloed systems resulted in inefficient workflows that caused customer service to suffer.
MIGRATION PATH: From a Microsoft™ Windows - based client-server application to service oriented architecture (SOA) J2EE application based upon the JBoss Enterprise Application Platform
SOFTWARE: JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform, J2EE™, Google Web Toolkit™, Apache
HARDWARE: Intel Xeon™ - based x86 servers
BENEFITS: More efficient and timely access to data and an automated streamlined workflow that improved worker productivity and customer service levels and increased revenues. Approximately 90 percent of the MCCA's day-to-day operations are run using open source technologies.
BUSINESS CHALLENGE: Needed a cost effective centralized management solution for its 1,200 instances of JBoss Enterprise Application Platform that would scale with its growing computing infrastructure
MIGRATION PATH: Ad hoc monitoring solutions to JBoss Operations Network
SOFTWARE:JBoss Operations Network (JBoss ON), JBoss Enterprise Application Platform on 150 plus systems, Red Hat Consulting, Oracle DB, HP OpenView
HARDWARE: Intel based Dell x86 commodity servers
BENEFITS: Improved availability and reliability of applications, a monitoring solution that can manage a large number of application server instances, simplified management, enhanced management and monitoring, and reduced costs
Spanish Employment Portal Relies on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and JBoss Enterprise Application Platform for key architecture deployment
Raleigh, NC– June 30, 2025 - Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that InfoJobs.net, one of the leading employment websites in Spain, has migrated its critical web business platform to Red Hat Enterprise Linux and JBoss Enterprise Application Platform with the help of Essi Projects, a Red Hat Premier Business Partner.
Infojobs.net now fully leverages JBoss Application Platform 4.2.0 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux for its application servers, indexing subsystem and database servers. Established ten years ago, InfoJobs.net runs a high-traffic web portal and has experienced significant growth. More than 5,500 users register their curriculum vitae through the InfoJobs.net web portal each day. With over 100,000 employment vacancies listed, Infojobs.net must meet the high-volume demand required by its users. Because of Red Hat's significant value and fast run-times the IT department at InfoJobs.net migrated to Red Hat Enterprise Linux for all its environments and JBoss Enterprise Application Platform for its web and satellite servers.
Benefits: Increased sales by offering a more flexible and customized service; Boosted customer satisfaction by improving provisioning and billing procedures; streamlined internal processes and cut operational costs through integrating customer relationship management, business process management, and accounting systems.
“With an award-winning organization like Red Hat behind us, and world-class technology like JBoss to leverage for our solutions, we are primed for success,” said Matt Van Bergan, chief technology officer, CITYTECH.
“CITYTECH listens to my needs, and is very creative about coming back with ideas, they speak in terms that make me confident they understand my business, and are completely focused on making Advent successful.” – Mike Swimelar, president, Advent Conferencing
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Challenge: Provide greater performance and stability for the company’s web platform with the fundamental objective to increase online sales
Migration Path: Oracle Application Server to JBoss Enterprise Application Server running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES v4, and JBoss Operation Network
Software: JBoss Enterprise Application Server 4.2 and Red Hat Enterprise ES Linux 4.0
Hardware: 3 + 2 servers, 2 for Application Server, 1 for JBoss ON, 2 servers for Oracle database on HP-UX.
Benefits: Improved performance, stability, and scalability of the platform, while also enhancing architecture control
“The continuous increase in online sales made through the web means the priority of the Corporate IT department must be to seek maximum availability and performance of the technology platform. Red Hat solutions have proven to exceed expectations for the the current and future needs of our platform.”
-- Ricardo Mardomingo, IT Manager of NH Hoteles.
Challenge: Build a service oriented architecture (SOA) solution for a government client that could be leveraged and reused for other client engagements
Migration Path: Transitioned a custom coded, proprietary-based solution to a a hybrid COTS/GOTS/Open-Source application that leveraged a significant portion of the Red Hat product portfolio.
Software: JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform including JBoss jBPM and JBoss Rules, JBoss Operations Network, Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Platform with Xen virtualization, Red Hat Cluster Suite and Red Hat GFS.
Operating System: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Advanced Platform
Hardware: Eight Dell 2950 servers with 32 gigabytes of memory
Benefits: Booz Allen built a modular SOA environment that efficiently supported the development and integration of new applications into the system, reducing the dependence on custom coding when doing proof-of-concept or production deployments of client systems across a broad range of government and commercial applications
“We selected Red Hat and JBoss Enterprise Middleware in order to meet our client's budgetary constraints, support requirements and operational needs. The combination of efficiency provided by Xen, scalability provided by Red Hat Cluster Suite, GFS, and the clustering feature of JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, along with the agility provided by the JBoss family of products has led our client to consider these products as their top-tier choice.”
– Christopher Dale, associate, Booz Allen Hamilton.
Red Hat middleware platform enables development and deployment of services in service-oriented architecture, offering enhanced productivity and system reliability
Raleigh NC – February 19, 2025 – Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that the National Institute of Design and Mint in Italy (Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato, IPZS) has selected the JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform to develop and implement software services in a SOA environment. With JBoss solutions, IPZS has significantly increased the productivity and reliability of its systems and has gained important business and economic advantages.
Experiences 500 percent increase in website capacity after implementing Red Hat and JBoss technologies
Raleigh NC – February 13, 2025 – Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that The Decurion Corporation, a real estate and movie exhibition corporation, has achieved success with a full suite of Red Hat solutions. Since implementing JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat Global File System for Decurion's ArcLight Cinemas website, the company has experienced enhanced support and increased performance, scalability and cost-effectiveness.
Experiences 500 percent increase in website capacity after implementing Red Hat and JBoss technologies
Industry: Real Estate and Movie Exhibition Corporation
Challenge: With a growing online customer base, Decurion's ArcLightCenmas.com looked to fix issues with its ticket sales website, previously based on Microsoft's .NET framework.
Migration Path: .NET framework to JBoss Enterprise Applciation Platform
Benefits: Enhanced support and increased performance, scalability and cost-effectiveness.
Geography: Los Angeles, CA
"JBoss Enterprise Middleware helps us accelerate solution delivery because it provides the beneficial features associated with open source solutions, combined with easy deployment and impressive customer service and support." Brad Bahmanpour, Enterprise Systems Architect at Decurion
Migration Path: Pearl-based environment to JBoss Enterprise Application Platform
Benefits: Faster development, greater scalability and “Ignited Performance”
“We have a very smart, fast-moving team and had set very aggressive deadlines for
taking our designs and re-factoring them in JBoss. “Instructor-led or classroom training wasn’t going to work. We needed someone who had detailed
knowledge of the entire platform, as well as of the specific applications and who could
go shoulder-to-shoulder as we tore into the code.”
- Frank Gartland, Vice President, Solution Strategy and Development, Incentive Logic.
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Opportunity: The aim was to free CAMIF from overly-complex nested systems and come up with a more efficient information system which was structured
by business activity, thus enabling more transparent and targeted intervention.
Solution: CAMIF has built its technical base using Open Source components and can now offer business applications as both development frameworks and cross-functional services. Software: JBoss Enterprise Application Server, JBoss Hibernate, JBoss Rules, JBoss Messaging, JBoss Eclipse IDE
Benefits: There are currently three application groups that benefit from the new architecture, which now integrates open source solutions, including several modules from the JBoss Enterprise Application Platform.
Project summary: The CAMIF Group, a multi-specialist distributor and the third largest French mail-order company, offers a range that extends from household appliances and personal equipment to supplying local authorities and from home furnishings to fine foods, without forgetting financial products. In 2003, the company took the step of progressively decommissioning their twenty-year-old HP3000 servers and completely revising the software architecture that was in place.
Opportunity: To replace costly proprietary software with reliable open source solutions to reduce acquisition and ongoing costs for the organization’s IT department.
Migration Path: Proprietary software and hardware, including Hewlett Packard PA-RISC chip-architecture, HP-UX Unix operating system, Oracle database and BEA WebLogic Server, to open source solutions, including JBoss Enterprise Application Platform
Solution:
Hardware: HP Blade System C-class servers with 300 AMD Opteron Dual Core CPUs
Operating System Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10
Benefits: Experienced reduced TCO, increased reliability, enhanced performance, freedom from vendor lock-in, and expects estimated cost savings of approximately €20 million Euros over the next five years
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