Credit: Michael Vi/Shutterstock “Red Hat, a provider of open source solutions to the enterprise, today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire JBoss, the global leader in open source middleware. “So, the open source guy is buying the open source guy, seems logical to me. Indeed, many are looking at this “SOA in a box” solution as something that could give Microsoft, Oracle, and IBM a run for their money. By the way, giving those guys a run for their money is a good way to get bought. However, Red Hat won’t go cheap, that’s for sure. Software Development