Red Hat Drives Future Use of Java For The Enterprise With JBoss Open Choice Strategy

JBoss Strategy to Offer Java Application Platform Architecture Focused on
Preserving Customer Choice by Supporting a Broad Range of Application
Programming and Deployment Models
SAN FRANCISCO--(Business Wire)--
Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions,
today announced the JBoss Open Choice application platform strategy which aims
to provide a single environment for deploying a variety of programming models
with a common platform, making it easier to develop and deploy applications. The
JBoss Open Choice strategy represents Red Hat's response to the expanding and
rapidly changing landscape of Java for the enterprise, which is marked by more
variety and more choice of programming and deployment models than ever before.
At the heart of the JBoss Open Choice strategy is the JBoss Microcontainer, a
new application platform architecture that uniquely isolates core enterprise
class platform services from the variety of container and framework choices
available today. The JBoss Open Choice strategy is intended to enable customers
to embrace the latest innovations of the Java community today and represent an
investment in the future as it will seek to accommodate the next wave of changes
to Java for the enterprise.

With JBoss Open Choice, Red Hat plans to provide application developers with the
ability to choose the framework, language and programming technologies that best
fit the application requirements they are trying to achieve without sacrificing
reliability, availability, scalability or manageability across their projects.
This means JBoss Enterprise Middleware customers will have an opportunity to
take advantage of popular programming models such as Spring, Seam, Struts,
Google Web Toolkit and Java Enterprise Edition across their products and still
enjoy uniformity of management and enterprise-class reliability in the platform.
The strategy is expected to employ a number of new JBoss application platform
products, built on a common architecture and designed to address customers'
unique application deployment needs without the complex dependencies of
traditional Java EE application server products.

"With an uncertain future and the ever-changing world of Java, the JBoss Open
Choice strategy is designed to provide customers with the confidence, to choose
the programming and deployment model that works for them without sacrificing
performance," said Craig Muzilla, vice president, Middleware, Red Hat. "Despite
all of the market shifts, Red Hat aims to remain a trusted source for valuable
and innovative solutions in the Java market."

The Java language and enterprise programming standards such as Java Enterprise
Edition have been extremely successful, reducing middleware redundancy and
easing development for enterprises to build and deploy applications. However,
the success of Java has also given rise to a variety of alternative programming
and deployment approaches. Enterprises now use lightweight servlet containers,
OSGi, Java EE and other application platforms along with a myriad of programming
approaches, APIs and dynamic languages. Often, each individual business
application requires varied operational capabilities for scalability,
manageability, high availability and security. This development paradigm has
resulted in a highly complex and disruptive application environment packed with
multiple application platforms and numerous technologies that make IT operations
difficult and inefficient. Furthermore, recent consolidation in the Java
industry has created greater uncertainty and technical fragmentation of the
application server market.

Red Hat has developed the JBoss Open Choice strategy in an effort to address the
new, dynamic nature of the Java market and to provide the next generation of
application server platforms. The JBoss Open Choice strategy aims to provide a
common application platform supporting various current and future programming
styles and enabling different deployment models. The technology behind the JBoss
Open Choice strategy is designed to support models such as Plain Old Java
Objects, Java EE, Spring Framework, OSGi and a variety of Rich Internet
Application frameworks. The flexible platform is intended to enable enterprises
to separate core enterprise services such as persistence, caching and
clustering, making the operational footprint simpler and easing development and
deployment. All of these capabilities are expected to be available through a
common core which will streamline the management of these varied environments.

Central to the JBoss Open Choice strategy is an innovative new application
server architecture consisting of the JBoss Microcontainer. The competitive
advantage of the new JBoss Microcontainer is that the core application platform
can be reduced and separated from enterprise services and programming APIs. This
separation of core platform from services provides a constant operational core
that isolates users from changes and evolutions in programming styles while
maintaining a single operational footprint for manageability. The JBoss Open
Choice strategy is intended to:

* Make it easier to develop and deploy applications - now and in the future.
* Encourage developer choice while providing a single environment for consistent
deployment and management.
* Provide the cost-saving value and flexibility of open source, while providing
trust of support and robust deployment.

The JBoss Open Choice strategy follows trends identified by leading industry
analysts. Forrester Research analysts John R. Rymer, Dave West and Mike Gilpin
advised: "Optimize deployments for the application. If your application requires
only J2EE Servlets, don't deploy it on a full J2EE server…deploy only the
runtime services needed to support your applications; sticking to the
necessities will hold down costs, reduce your exposure to risk in an upgrade,
and ease administration and operational management." (Lean Software is Agile,
Fit-to-Purpose, and Efficient," Forrester Research, Inc., Dec. 12, 2008)

Enterprise IT organizations require a stable and constant platform that can
easily adapt to these dynamic market changes, without disruption. For
traditional proprietary Java application servers, adopting these ever-changing
programming models have typically introduced additional complexity and
disruption; traditional closed-sourced platforms were simply never designed to
deal with this level of flexibility.

With JBoss Open Choice, Red Hat seeks to provide an open source platform that
can support the full range of popular programming models and deployment
paradigms. Red Hat customers are expected to benefit from this strategy through
reduced complexity and increased flexibility in their application development
and deployment environments.

The JBoss Open Choice strategy is a key part of the overall JBoss mission to
provide a comprehensive portfolio of open source middleware products to service
all of an enterprise`s application deployment and integration needs. JBoss
Enterprise Middleware from Red Hat is the market`s only open source middleware
reference architecture, providing opportunities for cost reduction and enhanced
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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