Raleigh-based Red Hat, Inc. (www.redhat.com), a leading provider of open source solutions, has extended its agreement with San Francisco-based Hyperic Inc., a leader in multi-platform, open source systems management, to develop a common systems management platform. Development will continue under an open source model.
Red Hat will contribute its updates and enhancements to this new open source project; both companies will work to maintain, govern and extend management capabilities within the new open source systems management platform project and will share an open source code repository hosted by Hyperic. Red Hat and Hyperic will collaborate on a development and governance roadmap for the common technology that will enable both companies to produce innovative solutions for systems management.
Red Hat, Inc. is a CED member.