Red Hat, the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that Thomas Erl, a leading service-oriented architecture (SOA) expert and the world's top-selling SOA author, has contributed IP in the area of service modeling to Red Hat. The technology is designed to help teams better and more easily collaborate, conceptualize and develop services - ultimately accelerating the shift to SOA. With this service modeling technology, the first of its kind in the market, Red Hat will add a unique capability to its JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform.