Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, and Hyperic Inc., a leading open source web infrastructure management software provider, today announced that a jointly developed management platform project, named RHQ, is officially live. Source code, under GPL open source license, project information and community forums are accessible at www.rhq-project.org. Additionally, Hyperic will join Red Hat Exchange (RHX), Red Hat's ISV program focused on offering customers integrated solutions.

The RHQ project is the result of an extension of the partnership between Red Hat and Hyperic, first announced in November, 2007. The RHQ project aims to develop a common services management platform that will be used in future versions of each company’s product offering. As a the next major milestone in this effort, the RHQ project will serve as the code base for JBoss Operations Network v2.0, due out in the Spring of 2008.

“As a leading provider of open source solutions, Red Hat knows firsthand the powerful value proposition more manageable products and a tighter interlock with support services provides for our customers,” said Katrinka McCallum, vice president, Management Solutions at Red Hat. “This project is an important step in our continued trajectory to continuously provide outstanding customer value.”

Lead by Red Hat and Hyperic, the RHQ project community will provide open collaboration on plug-ins, agent technology and other common capabilities of a management platform. Key features currently available include inventory and auto discovery, data collection, configuration management, control, event management, and sophisticated alerting and provisioning.

"We are excited to unveil the first jointly developed project with Red Hat. RHQ combines the best of both companies, and is an important step in our mission to make all technologies more manageable,” said Paul Melmon, senior vice president of engineering at Hyperic. "This collaboration is further proof of the ability of open source to address the management challenges faced by modern, web-driven businesses.”

Hyperic provides web infrastructure management software designed to automate and streamline operations for modern, web-driven enterprises. Its unique ability to automatically discover, integrate and manage new technologies enables companies to more easily and effectively maintain their business critical services.