Red Hat ROI analysis
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For the price of an annual
Red Hat subscription, Apache
project users can reduce
operating costs by millions
annually using Red Hat
JBoss Fuse and Red Hat
JBoss A-MQ.
Benefits
Integrated and stable
distribution
World-class technical support
High availability
Timely security patches
Long-term maintenance
Certified patches and updates
Simple consumption
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Red Hat JBoss Fuse and Red Hat JBoss A-MQ compared with
Apache community projects
Red Hat JBoss Fuse and Red Hat JBoss A-MQ retain all of the innovation of the Apache
projects including Apache ActiveMQ, Camel, CXF, and Karafwhile adding the ability to meet
the demanding requirements of mission-critical applications. Red Hat JBoss Fuse and Red Hat
JBoss A-MQ give enterprises the assurance of a subscription with service-level agreement (SLA)-
based support, patches, updates, and multi-year maintenance policies. Those who move from
Apache projects to Red Hat products can expect a significant return on their investment and
reduced expenses, based on several important areas of improvement.
Reduced time to market
Red Hat JBoss Fuse and Red Hat JBoss A-MQ are ready to go, out of the box. Red Hat integrates and
tests the community components and packages them with easy-to-use install scripts. If you are new
to the technology, the wide range of resources available on the Red Hat Customer Portal and our
knowledgeable support staff will reduce your learning curve and get you to production quickly.
Red Hat JBoss Developer Studio helps you develop, test, and deploy applications with ease. Red Hat
Consulting is available to guide application development, applying industry best practices to deliver
the highest quality applications in the shortest time. With JBoss Fuse and JBoss A-MQ, you get to
market more quickly and with potentially dramatic savings in development and opportunity costs.
Reduced downtime
Red Hat JBoss Fuse and Red Hat JBoss A-MQ are integrated and stable distributions of community
projects that lessen the likelihood of service-impacting outages in your production systems. In the
unlikely event of an outage, Red Hats world-class, SLA-based technical support will get you back
online in the shortest possible time. Fewer and shorter outages add up to massive savings for
your business.
Reduced maintenance
Red Hats single stream of certified patches and updates greatly reduces the cost of keeping critical
software up-to-date. Red Hat not only fixes issues found in the community code, but also tests and
collects updates from multiple community projects into a single, certified stream that can be applied
easily to your production systems. Red Hat also offers Red Hat JBoss Operations Network tooling
that simplifies maintenance efforts. Your engineering staff are freed from scouring the web and
relying on the community for fixes and can focus on your business needs.
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Reduced security burden
Red Hats security response team identifies, tracks, classifies, and resolves security issues using
a formalized enterprise security resolution process. This team works closely with industry and
government emergency response teams to ensure that emerging threats are countered and patches
released in the shortest possible time. Therefore, JBoss Fuse and JBoss A-MQ customers spend less
time investigating and patching security issues.
How much can you save?
Here are some sample calculations that demonstrate the savings you can realize with Red Hat
subscriptions. Fill in your own numbers to assess what Red Hat JBoss Fuse and Red Hat JBoss A-MQ
might save you.
Benefits
Red Hat JBoss Fuse Red Hat JBoss Apache
Small deployment Fuse community
projects
16-core subscription-Premium $27,000 $0
Reduced downtime
Typical uptime 99.999% 99.9%
Downtime hours per year 0.09 8.7

Downtime cost per hour $42,000 $42,000

Downtime annual cost risk $3,780 $365,400

Reduced maintenance

Typical sustaining engineering effort (FTE*) 0.2 1

Typical annual burdened engineer cost $150,000 $150,000

Total sustaining engineering cost $30,000 $150,000

Reduced security burden

Typical effort to investigate security issues and 0.2 1

obtain patches (FTE)

Typical annual burdened security engineer cost $150,000 $150,000

Total security engineering cost $30,000 $150,000

Total annual operating cost savings $574,620

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 Red Hat JBoss Fuse Red Hat JBoss Apache
large deployment Fuse community
projects

64-core subscription-Premium $101,250 $0

Reduced downtime

Typical uptime 99.999% 99.9%

Downtime hours per year 0.09 8.7

Downtime cost per hour $300,000 $300,000

Downtime annual cost risk $27,000 $ 2,610,000

Reduced maintenance

Typical sustaining engineering effort (FTE*) 0.2 2

Typical annual burdened engineer cost $150,000 $150,000

Total sustaining engineering cost $30,000 $300,000

Reduced security burden

Typical effort to investigate security issues and 0.2 1

obtain patches (FTE)

Typical annual burdened security engineer cost $150,000 $150,000

Total security engineering cost $30,000 $150,000

Total annual operating cost savings $2,871,750

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 Red Hat JBoss A-MQ Red Hat JBoss Apache
small deployment a-mq community
projects

16-core subscription-Premium $18,000 $0

Reduced downtime

Typical uptime 99.999% 99.9%

Downtime hours per year 0.09 8.7

Downtime cost per hour $42,000 $42,000

Downtime annual cost risk $3,780 $ 365,400

Reduced maintenance

Typical sustaining engineering effort (FTE*) 0.2 1

Typical annual burdened engineer cost $150,000 $150,000

Total sustaining engineering cost $30,000 $150,000

Reduced security burden

Typical effort to investigate security issues and obtain patches 0.2 1

(FTE)

Typical annual burdened security engineer cost $150,000 $150,000

Total security engineering cost $30,000 $150,000

Total annual operating cost savings $583,620

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 Red Hat JBoss a-mq Red Hat Apache
large deployment JBoss a-mq community
projects

64-core subscription-Premium $67,500 $0

Reduced downtime

Typical uptime 99.999% 99.9%

Downtime hours per year 0.09 8.7

Downtime cost per hour $300,000 $300,000

Downtime annual cost risk $27,000 $ 2,610,000

Reduced maintenance

Typical sustaining engineering effort (FTE*) 0.2 1

Typical annual burdened engineer cost $150,000 $150,000

Total sustaining engineering cost $30,000 $300,000

Reduced security burden

Typical effort to investigate security issues and 0.2 1

obtain patches (FTE)

Typical annual burdened security engineer cost $150,000 $150,000

Total security engineering cost $30,000 $150,000

Total annual operating cost savings $2,755,500

*Full-time equivalent

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