Red Hat, the world's most successful open source company, is acquiring FuseSource from Progress Software Corporation.

FuseSource is a provider of open-source integration and messaging and is currently serving a lot of Fortune 500 companies. FuseSource will enable Red Hat to accelerate the delivery of application integration products and services to enterprise customers.

Craig Muzilla, vice president and general manager of middleware Red Hat said, "Application integration software is one of the fastest growing segments of the enterprise software market, As cloud computing becomes more prevalent, enterprise customers are demanding greater application integration to enable seamless use of cloud computing. With the addition of FuseSource to our middleware portfolio, we will enable customers to experience greater integration capabilities and flexibility. FuseSource's technologies, expertise, and commitment to open source make them a great fit."

FuseSource provides open-source integration and open-source messaging products based on Apache ServiceMix, Apache ActiveMQ, Apache CFX and Apache Camel. It has a reputation of high quality services and contributers and its expected that with the help of FuseSource, Red hat will be able to deliver better application integration and messaging support in cloud for its enterprise customers.