JBoss, Inc. offers open source middleware software and services for enterprises and software providers. It provides JBoss Enterprise Middleware to build, deploy, integrate, orchestrate, and present Web applications and services in a service-oriented architecture. The company also offers JBoss Enterprise Application Platform for building, deploying, and hosting enterprise Java applications and services; and JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform for hosting and serving a portal's Web interface, as well as for aggregating, publishing, and managing its content. In addition, it provides MetaMatrix Enterprise Data Services Platform, a data services management system that enables creation, deployment, and management of data services; and JBoss Hibernate, which allows client to express queries in its own portable SQL extension, native SQL, or with object-oriented criteria. Further, the company offers JBoss jBPM that brings process automation to a set of business problems, from embedded workflow to enterprise business process orchestration, and BPM; JBoss Rules, a business rules engine for content-based routing; and JBoss Seam, which enhances the development of Web applications through integration with service-oriented architecture technologies. Further more, it provides JBoss Enterprise Service Bus that intermediates interactions between enterprise applications, business services, business components, and middleware to integrate and automate business processes; and JBossMQ for messaging. The company was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. As of June 5, 2006, JBoss, Inc. is a subsidiary of Red Hat, Inc.