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June 1, 2009
Red Hat Offers Value, Choice & Flexibility With New Java Application Platform Products
JBoss solutions mark the first delivery on JBoss Open Choice strategy for the enterprise Java market
San Francisco, CA – June 1, 2009 – Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today expanded its application server offerings to include workload specific solutions designed to provide increased flexibility and choice for enterprise customers. Executing on its JBoss Open Choice strategy, the JBoss Enterprise Middleware portfolio now includes solutions for all of the common Java application workloads; from simple web applications, to light and rich Java applications, to Java Enterprise Edition (EE) based applications. Moreover, JBoss platforms support a variety of popular programming models including Spring Framework, Seam and Google Web Toolkit. With this expansion, Red Hat now has one of the most comprehensive Java application server portfolios in the industry.
“In this challenging economic environment, customers are looking for high value alternatives to costly, bloated and complex software. Our enterprise customers are demanding flexible, standards-based solutions that match more closely with the way they're starting to build and deploy Java applications,” said Craig Muzilla, vice president, middleware, Red Hat. “The solution set that we are delivering today, as the first in a series of expansions planned under our JBoss Open Choice strategy, addresses this market shift.”
Red Hat has taken a leadership role in redefining the enterprise Java market, with the goal of being the first company with a comprehensive open source middleware portfolio. Now more than ever, companies are moving away from a “one size fits all” approach in favour of more flexible, workload specific application servers that support a variety of programming models and APIs.
With these expanded offerings, Red Hat now offers a full suite of Java application solutions that provide a simple, standard and flexible alternative to more complex and costly proprietary middleware that are often restricted to single APIs and programming models. Red Hat's next generation Java platforms are designed to meet market demands; as IT budgets shrink and customers are looking to innovate to maintain their competitive advantage, they are relying on lighter weight application architectures and a variety of new and innovative programming models and approaches.
"We've experienced the benefits of JBoss Enterprise Middleware first hand through reduced costs and higher staff productivity. As we look at our expanded use of open source, Red Hat's strategy is a perfect fit for the application workloads we require,” said Ravi Simhambhatla, director of architecture, Virgin America.
Red Hat's expanded Java application server portfolio now includes:
Application Server Platforms: Red Hat plans to provide three workload-based application server runtime solutions that specifically target the most common workloads required by today's dynamic enterprise Java applications:
• JBoss Enterprise Application Platform: Red Hat's current solution for highly transactional applications, utilizing the Java Enterprise Edition (EE) programming approach. It leverages the popular JBoss Application Server with enterprise features for clustering, caching, messaging, transactions and a full web services stack. Over the last year, Red Hat customers have been standardising on the current Application Platform 4.3 release. Early access programs are underway for the next major release, Application Platform 5.0.
• JBoss Enterprise Web Platform: A new solution for mid-size workloads, focusing on light and rich Java applications. Web Platform is a slimmed down version of the JBoss Enterprise Application Platform. Web Platform builds upon the new Java EE Web Profile to provide a lightweight version of the popular JBoss Application Server, while still providing enterprise features for clustering, caching and simple web services.
• JBoss Enterprise Web Server: Now available, a solution for the lightest Java workloads. Targeted at simple web applications, JBoss Enterprise Web Server provides enterprises with a stable, long-term enterprise product support lifecycle for Apache Web Server, Apache Tomcat and all of the common connectors used in between.
Java Application Frameworks: Application frameworks provide a simple way to address common Java programming tasks. There are a variety of programming models, APIs and language types used by Java-oriented programmers today. To keep pace with the more dynamic movement of popular open source frameworks and in response to customer demand to provide more complete coverage across the entire Java application stack, Red Hat will now offer enterprise product support for popular application frameworks such as Spring Framework and JBoss Seam. Each framework is expected to be pre-integrated into both JBoss Enterprise Application & Web Platforms and can also be added to JBoss Enterprise Web Server.
• JBoss Hibernate: A leading object relational mapping and persistence framework and a driving force behind Java persistence and EJB standards. Hibernate frees siloed applications from a specific relational database while significantly reducing application development time.
• JBoss Seam: A powerful application integration framework and the basis for the new Java Contexts and Dependency Injection standard (formerly Web Beans), one of the major features of Java EE 6. Seam removes the historic complexities associated with Java EE by facilitating integration of rich application technologies
• JBoss Web Framework Kit: Available today, JBoss Web Framework Kit includes popular open source frameworks used for web application development. This first release of Web Framework Kit includes enterprise-class versions of Google Web Toolkit, RichFaces, Spring Framework and Struts. Future versions are expected to include additional rich application frameworks.
Productivity Tools: All of these JBoss solutions are intended to leverage the same productivity toolsets, included with each large-scale JBoss Enterprise Middleware subscription:
* JBoss Developer Studio: Red Hat's innovative Eclipse-based developer tool that provides a single integrated development environment for all JBoss platforms.
* JBoss Operations Network: Red Hat's comprehensive middleware management solution that provides IT Operations with a single, easy to use tool to manage all types of Java application workloads.
With this expanded JBoss Application Platform product portfolio, Red Hat continues to deliver on its strategy to provide a comprehensive portfolio of middleware products that solve any application development, deployment and integration challenges. These new solutions continue to help Red Hat customers leverage enterprise open source solutions to carve out costs, while still maintaining maximum architecture flexibility.
To learn more about this announcement, join Red Hat's JBoss Open Choice strategy press conference live via webcast on June 1, 2009 at 9am PT / 5pm UK. To join live or for a replay please visit:
http://www.thomson-webcast.net/us/dispatching/?event_id=6fc5972edbe15888446210b29e5af5e8&portal_id=af9b227bf07c733390c2738ee0330646
Please visit Red Hat's JBoss booth # 510 at JavaOne and on the web at http://jboss.org/events/javaone.html
For more news, more often, visit www.press.redhat.com.
About Red Hat, Inc.
Red Hat, the world's leading open source solutions provider, is headquartered in Raleigh, NC with over 65 offices spanning the globe. CIOs ranked Red Hat as one of the top vendors delivering value in Enterprise Software for five consecutive years in the CIO Insight Magazine Vendor Value survey. Red Hat provides high-quality, affordable technology with its operating system platform, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, together with applications, management and Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) solutions, including JBoss Enterprise Middleware. Red Hat also offers support, training and consulting services to its customers worldwide. Learn more: http://www.redhat.com.
Forward-Looking Statements
Certain statements contained in this press release may constitute "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements provide current expectations of future events based on certain assumptions and include any statement that does not directly relate to any historical or current fact. Actual results may differ materially from those indicated by such forward-looking statements as a result of various important factors, including: risks related to delays or reductions in information technology spending, the integration of acquisitions and the ability to market successfully acquired technologies and products; the ability of the Company to effectively compete; the inability to adequately protect Company intellectual property and the potential for infringement or breach of license claims of or relating to third party intellectual property; the ability to deliver and stimulate demand for new products and technological innovations on a timely basis; risks related to data and information security vulnerabilities; ineffective management of, and control over, the Company's growth and international operations; fluctuations in exchange rates; adverse results in litigation; and changes in and a dependence on key personnel, as well as other factors contained in our most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K (copies of which may be accessed through the Securities and Exchange Commission's website at http://www.sec.gov), including those found therein under the captions "Risk Factors" and "Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations". In addition to these factors, actual future performance, outcomes, and results may differ materially because of more general factors including (without limitation) general industry and market conditions and growth rates, economic conditions, and governmental and public policy changes. The forward-looking statements included in this press release represent the Company's views as of the date of this press release and these views could change. However, while the Company may elect to update these forward-looking statements at some point in the future, the Company specifically disclaims any obligation to do so. These forward-looking statements should not be relied upon as representing the Company's views as of any date subsequent to the date of the press release.
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“In this challenging economic environment, customers are looking for high value alternatives to costly, bloated and complex software. Our enterprise customers are demanding flexible, standards-based solutions that match more closely with the way they're starting to build and deploy Java applications,” said Craig Muzilla, vice president, middleware, Red Hat. “The solution set that we are delivering today, as the first in a series of expansions planned under our JBoss Open Choice strategy, addresses this market shift.”
Red Hat has taken a leadership role in redefining the enterprise Java market, with the goal of being the first company with a comprehensive open source middleware portfolio. Now more than ever, companies are moving away from a “one size fits all” approach in favour of more flexible, workload specific application servers that support a variety of programming models and APIs.
With these expanded offerings, Red Hat now offers a full suite of Java application solutions that provide a simple, standard and flexible alternative to more complex and costly proprietary middleware that are often restricted to single APIs and programming models. Red Hat's next generation Java platforms are designed to meet market demands; as IT budgets shrink and customers are looking to innovate to maintain their competitive advantage, they are relying on lighter weight application architectures and a variety of new and innovative programming models and approaches.
"We've experienced the benefits of JBoss Enterprise Middleware first hand through reduced costs and higher staff productivity. As we look at our expanded use of open source, Red Hat's strategy is a perfect fit for the application workloads we require,” said Ravi Simhambhatla, director of architecture, Virgin America.
Red Hat's expanded Java application server portfolio now includes:
Application Server Platforms: Red Hat plans to provide three workload-based application server runtime solutions that specifically target the most common workloads required by today's dynamic enterprise Java applications:
• JBoss Enterprise Application Platform: Red Hat's current solution for highly transactional applications, utilizing the Java Enterprise Edition (EE) programming approach. It leverages the popular JBoss Application Server with enterprise features for clustering, caching, messaging, transactions and a full web services stack. Over the last year, Red Hat customers have been standardising on the current Application Platform 4.3 release. Early access programs are underway for the next major release, Application Platform 5.0.
• JBoss Enterprise Web Platform: A new solution for mid-size workloads, focusing on light and rich Java applications. Web Platform is a slimmed down version of the JBoss Enterprise Application Platform. Web Platform builds upon the new Java EE Web Profile to provide a lightweight version of the popular JBoss Application Server, while still providing enterprise features for clustering, caching and simple web services.
• JBoss Enterprise Web Server: Now available, a solution for the lightest Java workloads. Targeted at simple web applications, JBoss Enterprise Web Server provides enterprises with a stable, long-term enterprise product support lifecycle for Apache Web Server, Apache Tomcat and all of the common connectors used in between.
Java Application Frameworks: Application frameworks provide a simple way to address common Java programming tasks. There are a variety of programming models, APIs and language types used by Java-oriented programmers today. To keep pace with the more dynamic movement of popular open source frameworks and in response to customer demand to provide more complete coverage across the entire Java application stack, Red Hat will now offer enterprise product support for popular application frameworks such as Spring Framework and JBoss Seam. Each framework is expected to be pre-integrated into both JBoss Enterprise Application & Web Platforms and can also be added to JBoss Enterprise Web Server.
• JBoss Hibernate: A leading object relational mapping and persistence framework and a driving force behind Java persistence and EJB standards. Hibernate frees siloed applications from a specific relational database while significantly reducing application development time.
• JBoss Seam: A powerful application integration framework and the basis for the new Java Contexts and Dependency Injection standard (formerly Web Beans), one of the major features of Java EE 6. Seam removes the historic complexities associated with Java EE by facilitating integration of rich application technologies
• JBoss Web Framework Kit: Available today, JBoss Web Framework Kit includes popular open source frameworks used for web application development. This first release of Web Framework Kit includes enterprise-class versions of Google Web Toolkit, RichFaces, Spring Framework and Struts. Future versions are expected to include additional rich application frameworks.
Productivity Tools: All of these JBoss solutions are intended to leverage the same productivity toolsets, included with each large-scale JBoss Enterprise Middleware subscription:
* JBoss Developer Studio: Red Hat's innovative Eclipse-based developer tool that provides a single integrated development environment for all JBoss platforms.
* JBoss Operations Network: Red Hat's comprehensive middleware management solution that provides IT Operations with a single, easy to use tool to manage all types of Java application workloads.
With this expanded JBoss Application Platform product portfolio, Red Hat continues to deliver on its strategy to provide a comprehensive portfolio of middleware products that solve any application development, deployment and integration challenges. These new solutions continue to help Red Hat customers leverage enterprise open source solutions to carve out costs, while still maintaining maximum architecture flexibility.
To learn more about this announcement, join Red Hat's JBoss Open Choice strategy press conference live via webcast on June 1, 2009 at 9am PT / 5pm UK. To join live or for a replay please visit:
http://www.thomson-webcast.net/us/dispatching/?event_id=6fc5972edbe15888446210b29e5af5e8&portal_id=af9b227bf07c733390c2738ee0330646
Please visit Red Hat's JBoss booth # 510 at JavaOne and on the web at http://jboss.org/events/javaone.html
For more news, more often, visit www.press.redhat.com.
About Red Hat, Inc.
Red Hat, the world's leading open source solutions provider, is headquartered in Raleigh, NC with over 65 offices spanning the globe. CIOs ranked Red Hat as one of the top vendors delivering value in Enterprise Software for five consecutive years in the CIO Insight Magazine Vendor Value survey. Red Hat provides high-quality, affordable technology with its operating system platform, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, together with applications, management and Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) solutions, including JBoss Enterprise Middleware. Red Hat also offers support, training and consulting services to its customers worldwide. Learn more: http://www.redhat.com.
Forward-Looking Statements
Certain statements contained in this press release may constitute "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements provide current expectations of future events based on certain assumptions and include any statement that does not directly relate to any historical or current fact. Actual results may differ materially from those indicated by such forward-looking statements as a result of various important factors, including: risks related to delays or reductions in information technology spending, the integration of acquisitions and the ability to market successfully acquired technologies and products; the ability of the Company to effectively compete; the inability to adequately protect Company intellectual property and the potential for infringement or breach of license claims of or relating to third party intellectual property; the ability to deliver and stimulate demand for new products and technological innovations on a timely basis; risks related to data and information security vulnerabilities; ineffective management of, and control over, the Company's growth and international operations; fluctuations in exchange rates; adverse results in litigation; and changes in and a dependence on key personnel, as well as other factors contained in our most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K (copies of which may be accessed through the Securities and Exchange Commission's website at http://www.sec.gov), including those found therein under the captions "Risk Factors" and "Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations". In addition to these factors, actual future performance, outcomes, and results may differ materially because of more general factors including (without limitation) general industry and market conditions and growth rates, economic conditions, and governmental and public policy changes. The forward-looking statements included in this press release represent the Company's views as of the date of this press release and these views could change. However, while the Company may elect to update these forward-looking statements at some point in the future, the Company specifically disclaims any obligation to do so. These forward-looking statements should not be relied upon as representing the Company's views as of any date subsequent to the date of the press release.
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© 2009 Red Hat, Inc. Red Hat, the Shadowman logo and JBoss are registered trademarks of Red Hat, Inc. in the U.S. and other countries. Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds.
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