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--(Business Wire)--
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 favor 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
standardizing 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. 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

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Enterprise Linux, together with applications, management and Services Oriented
Architecture (SOA) solutions, including JBoss Enterprise Middleware. Red Hat
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