Palo Alto, California-based HP said it will act as a single point of contact for JBoss support and will offer a range of consulting services, building on an agreement inked in June that certified JBoss AS on its Xeon-based ProLiant and Itanium-based Integrity servers.
The latest agreement adds enhanced support as well as services covering architecture and design, implementation, and integration and migration, on those same servers. HP is also planning to offer HP OpenView Application Management products in early 2005 that will monitor and manage JBoss AS environments.
HP is the latest in a long line of vendors to offer support for the JBoss AS, including Novell Inc, Unisys Corp and Iona Inc, but it might not be the last. Dell is also tracking the open source operating system, as well as MySQL AB’s eponymous open source database product, according to John Coulston, EMEA head of alliances for Dell.
As other Linux [and open source] providers develop and start getting traction in the market, it’s all fair game, said Jeff Kimbell, director of relationship marketing for Dell EMEA.
