Fleury, who will be senior vice president and general manager of the JBoss division at Red Hat, spoke out on a number of topics related to the planned US$350 million merger, which was announced on Monday.

"You're going to see a new level of scalability from us, and that takes investment," Fleury said. The company seeks to build out its JBoss Enterprise Middleware Suite, in particular.

Red Hat, with JBoss on board, is "the biggest independent open source vendor," he said. The two organizations share a developer-centric culture, Fleury said.

Asked about widespread rumors of Oracle's interest in acquiring JBoss, Fleury declined to discuss Oracle, specifically.

"I cannot talk about that," Fleury said. However, there were many options for JBoss, including mergers and an initial public offering. One offer even would have paid JBoss to remain independent. But JBoss decided that being acquired by Red Hat was the best option because it would infuse capital right away to enable JBoss to expand its business, Fleury said.