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Red Hat sponsors this Open Source project and employs its core developers. Additionally, Red Hat offers enterprise support and consultancy for this community project, as part of a Red Hat product subscription.

Red Hat has:

  • Solution Architects to implement POC’s

  • Consultants to help deliver reliable production implementations

  • A 24/7 support team

Community and enterprise comparison

The community download delivers everything you would expect from an Open Source project, including all features. The enterprise subscription fills the missing gaps for enterprise use. Both community and enterprise use the same code base.

Community Enterprise subscription

Functionality

All features

Yes Includes all enterprise features too

Yes

All bugfixes

Yes Master branch only

Yes Supported maintenance branches too

Documentation

Yes

Yes

Backport bugfixes to maintenance branches

No Not released

Yes Released in maintenance releases

Security (CVE) watch for maintenance branches

No Eventually released from master branch only

Yes Released as backported bugfix

Testing

Unit testing

Yes

Yes On certification matrix

Integration testing

Yes

Yes On certification matrix

Stress testing

Yes

Yes

Performance testing and sizing

No

Yes

QA certification

No

Yes Cross matrix of OS’s, JDK’s, application containers, databases, …​ See supported configurations.

Help

Roadmap impact

Yes Use our forum, issue tracker or send a Pull Request

Yes Prioritized above community requests

Public questions

Yes Use Google Groups

Yes Or call 24/7 support instead

Private 24/7 support

No

Yes By web or phone, guaranteed response time (SLA)

Red Hat consultancy, training and POC assistance

No

Yes Talk to your account manager

Release schedule

Stable releases

Yes Final usually every 3 weeks

Yes GA every 3 months

Maintenance releases

No Use latest instead

Yes Usually every 6 weeks

One-off release for an urgent customer critical issue

No

Yes Also rolled up in the next maintenance release

Information

Open source (Apache License)

Yes

Yes but distribution available from customer portal only

To migrate from the community to product binaries, simply add the customer maven repository and adjust the version numbers to include the -redhat suffix.

Enterprise overview

KIE functionality overview

jBPM is a fully supported component (called Red Hat Process Automation Manager) of the following products:

  • Red Hat Process Automation Manager

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