At the JBoss World conference, the largest gathering of JBoss users world-wide, FiveRuns announced a partnership with JBoss, a division of Red Hat, to support JBoss Application Server on with FiveRuns’ offerings. FiveRuns’ solutions are designed for IT professionals using open source software such as Linux, Apache, and JBoss, as well as more traditional commercially licensed products. This partnership brings another choice in systems management to customers.

"As a strong supporter of the open source community, FiveRuns developed deep functionality around open source components first and foremost," said David Wilby, VP of Marketing, FiveRuns. "JBoss users are building mission-critical businesses and we are with them every step of the way."

“JBoss is committed to providing enterprise customers with a flexible middleware platform that works with their existing IT infrastructure and can be consumed as their own pace,” said Tom Cooper, vice president of worldwide channels, JBoss. “We rely on partners like FiveRuns to augment our community with solutions that support and enhance the JBoss Enterprise Middleware Suite (JEMS).”

Extending the high quality, low cost benefits of open source solutions, FiveRuns Systems Management is a fraction of the cost of traditional management software, making it affordable for businesses of all sizes. JBoss has invited users to participate in the FiveRuns beta at http://www.fiveruns.com.