What is the rationale behind the acquisition?
Enterprise data and information play a critical role within our customers’ SOA initiatives. While Red Hat’s open source architecture delivers value to customers by helping them unlock the value of open source at the operating system and middleware layers, we have not yet offered customers a way to alleviate their lock-in at the data and information layer. Our current SOA product portfolio focuses mostly on transaction intensive workloads. Data intensive workloads are quite challenging as well, and the need for a data management layer that efficiently and reliably enables federated access to a wide range of heterogeneous data sources is increasing.
