Red Hat (Quote, Company Info) charted a course beyond the operating system Monday, revealing its new Red Hat Enterprise Applications family, starting with the Red Hat Enterprise Content Management System (CMS) and the Red Hat Enterprise Portal Server.

The new applications give Red Hat a foothold higher up in the stack, adding a revenue stream while making its core offering -- the Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating environment -- a more attractive package.

Both solutions are built on Red Hat's Web Application Framework, a platform for writing database-backed Web applications in Java. By leveraging the framework's APIs (define), applications can enable the authoring of persistent structured data and retrieve and display the data as content.

The framework also integrates services like search, versioning and permissions into its basic objects.

Red Hat promised that its CMS solution could get a company up to speed with content management in as little as two months. The J2EE-compliant software will be delivered with source code included, and provides a workflow-based engine for managing content on the intranet, extranet and Internet settings.

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