Add some feedback for the Red Hat Middleware Strategy.

Signed-off-by: James R. Perkins <jperkins@redhat.com>

Author: jamezp

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+title:      "RESTEasy and Red Hat's Middleware Strategy"
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+date:       Mar 19, 2025 11:11:11 PDT
+author:     James R. Perkins
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+Hello,
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+Red Hat announced a change in its middleware strategy last month and I wanted to give the RESTEasy community information on how that affects RESTEasy.
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+The Red Hat announcement can be found on the Red Hat blog:
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+[Evolving our middleware strategy](https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/evolving-our-middleware-strategy){:target="_blank"}
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+
+Some key points there are:
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+* Red Hat’s Middleware and Integration Engineering and Products teams are moving to IBM in May 2025.
+* All transitioning Red Hat technology will remain open source and continue to follow an upstream-first development model.
+
+Red Hat has sponsored the RESTEasy project since its inception in 2008, when the first JAX-RS specification was created. Now, Red Hat’s participation in and support for RESTEasy is being transferred to IBM.
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+While RESTEasy is used in WildFly and JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, it’s also used as a Jakarta REST implementation for standalone applications. RESTEasy is an open source project and will remain an open source project.
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+There was an announcement about [moving RESTEasy to a foundation](https://resteasy.dev/2025/02/19/resteasy-to-foundation/). Please note the move to a foundation was not triggered by this announcement. This was being thought about for a while, well before the announcement of Red Hat’s strategy.
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+I’d like to say I’m personally a little sad to leave Red Hat. It has been a fantastic 14 years. However, I’m excited to see what we can all achieve together next.
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+As always, feel free to reach out to us if you have further questions. 
+
+James R. Perkins