Red Hat Expands Developer Offerings with JBoss Developer Studio

First Eclipse-Based Development Environment Combining Open Source
Tooling and Runtime for Complete Application Development Lifecycles
RALEIGH, N.C.--(Business Wire)--Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source
solutions, today announced the global availability of JBoss Developer
Studio, the first open source, Eclipse-based, integrated development
environment combining tooling with runtime. JBoss Developer Studio
provides a simple, powerful and easy-to-use solution for developers
utilizing JBoss Enterprise Middleware. The solution provides a stable
end-to-end, lifecycle environment for application development and
deployment, enabling enterprises to respond more quickly and
efficiently to rapidly changing business requirements.

JBoss Developer Studio eliminates the need to assemble individual
development environments, allowing developers and IT departments to
utilize the complete solution from JBoss in one easily delivered
installation. Featuring pre-integrated tools and out-of-the-box
capabilities, the solution leverages the high-calibre Eclipse-based
developer tools that were first made available as open source software
on JBoss.org. Since its initial beta release in August, there have
been over 100,000 downloads of the test builds for Developer Studio,
serving as a clear indicator of the developer community's interest in
an open source and friction-free development platform for developing
their applications.

"JBoss Developer Studio makes open source middleware software easy
to consume, maintain, use and support in cross-platform development
environments," said Craig Muzilla, vice president, Middleware Business
at Red Hat. "This solution will appeal to developers, while more
effectively ensuring that enterprises can develop software better and
faster, and with greater confidence. We believe Developer Studio will
accelerate the use of open source software around the globe and
throughout enterprises."

JBoss Developer Studio incorporates Eclipse tooling, integrated
JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, and also comes with Red Hat
Enterprise Linux for development use and full access to Red Hat
Network. Developer Studio also features tooling for technologies,
including Java EE, JBoss Seam and Ajax, Hibernate and Persistence,
JBoss jBPM, Struts and Spring IDE. The combination of these components
provides developers with a stable solution that offers matched
tooling, easy upgrades and the same runtime environment in development
as in production.

JBoss Developer Studio is now available for both Windows(TM) and
Linux through subscription from Red Hat for $99. For more information
about Developer Studio, visit http://www.jboss.com/products/devstudio.

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or www.jboss.com. For more news, more often, visit
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About Red Hat, Inc.

Red Hat, the world's leading open source solutions provider, is
headquartered in Raleigh, NC with over 50 satellite offices spanning
the globe. CIOs have ranked Red Hat first for value in Enterprise
Software for four consecutive years in the CIO Insight Magazine Vendor
Value study. 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 the JBoss Enterprise Middleware Suite. Red Hat
also offers support, training and consulting services to its customers
worldwide. Learn more: http://www.redhat.com.

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