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In a move sure to shock no-one at all, RedHat has announced the launch of the JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform.

The new product brings Service Oriented Architecture to the JBoss application platform for the first time, as well as the exemplary integration of applications and processes which we've come to expect. Red Hat calls the new package 'the first comprehensive open source SOA product offering'. Three cheers for Red Hat, then.

Red Hat has announced the winners of the JBoss Innovation Awards 2008. The Awards, in their second year, highlight the individuals and companies which are judged to be the most innovative and effective in providing JBoss solutions.

JBoss, a division of Red Hat, provides open source middleware solutions for the enterprise, offering a platform for building, integrating and presenting Web applications in a Service-Oriented Architecture.

Every week, it seems, there's a big announcement from Alfresco. Last week 2.9 came out, offering integration with iGoogle and Adobe Flex.

A little bit before that, the company released a cheeky Facebook hookup that turned heads. And in between announcements, Alfresco has been boasting to anyone who'll listen about how great the product is, ragging mercilessly on Sharepoint, and generally acting like drunken cowboys in a frontier saloon.

In an effort to gauge the use of open source software on the enterprise level, Alfresco turns to its rapidly growing developer community to create a biannual report of user preferences with respect to: operating systems, application servers, databases, browsers, and portals.

This report, forever known as the Open Source Barometer, is generated by collecting opt-in survey data from Alfresco community members.

"Innovation is taking ECM out the 1990's"

With these words and the immediate availability of Alfresco Community Edition version 2.1, CTO John Newton hopes to position Alfresco as not just an innovator in the enterprise content management space but also in the enterprise architecture community.

Open source stalwart and Red Hat favorite JBoss officially announces the JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform with the release of an updated version of its foundation application: JBoss Portal 2.6.

Joining thirteen other open source stalwarts including MySQL, JBoss, Zimbra and Sugar CRM, Alfresco is now one of the founding members of a new online marketplace for business applications called the Red Hat Exchange (RHX).