Red Hat and Hyperic are extending their agreement to co-develop a common systems management platform, with development to continue under a new open source model. Hyperic offers monitoring and management software for large-scale online businesses and SaaS providers. The arrangement with Red Hat means Hyperic will collaborate with Red Hat and JBoss on open source system management software for Red and JBoss produc Red Hat and Hyperic are extending their agreement to co-develop a common systems management platform, with development to continue under a new open source model.Hyperic offers monitoring and management software for large-scale online businesses and SaaS providers. The arrangement with Red Hat means Hyperic will collaborate with Red Hat and JBoss on open source system management software for Red and JBoss products, including Red Hat’s Linux distribution. Previously, JBoss licensed Hyperic’s software to create the JBoss Operations Network, a management offering that is re-branding of Hyperic’s product. Now Red Hat, which has acquired JBoss, will contribute updates and enhancements to the project. Red Hat and Hyperic will include this base in both future Hyperic and Red Hat systems management products. The two companies also will share an open source code repository and collaborate on a development and governance roadmap for their common technology. Hyperic became an open source vendor last year. “We did it so that we could get this technology into more people’s hands,” said Javier Sultero, Hyperic CEO.The community at large will have access to the jointly developed code base via the GPL (GNU General Public License). Technology Industry