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Red Hat announced a new service to provide full certification and production support for key open source software stacks.
Starting in early 2006, Red Hat will offer three new stacks aimed at simplifying and standardizing open source application stacks, so that developers can focus on their applications instead of configuring the underlying platform. Each stack will be certified and supported on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and delivered in a subscription model.
"Software developers are familiar with the performance benefits of Linux. Now, they're beginning to leverage popular open source components for new development projects throughout their enterprise," said Paul Cormier, executive vice president of Engineering at Red Hat. "These new certified stacks will help them get to market faster, while giving them the confidence to deploy, knowing that Red Hat's proven production support capability is behind them."
"IDC's surveys over the past several years have demonstrated that organizations are very focused on cutting costs and deriving immediate and measurable value from IT investments," said Dan Kusnetzky, vice president of IDC's System Software research. "Red Hat's move to add value above the Red Hat Enterprise Linux platform and into open source solutions stacks is consistent with these organizational priorities. It is my view that this announcement will be well received."
Red Hat Certified Stacks for Web Applications: Three New Offerings
Under the new program, Red Hat is conducting extensive integration and testing of the various components running on the Red Hat Enterprise Linux platform. Red Hat is offering support initially for three stacks of popular open source components:
Web Application Stack: Red Hat's Web Application Stack is for simple websites and applications, and includes support for the popular LAMP components (the Apache HTTP Server, MySQL database and PHP scripting language), on top of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Customers may also choose the PostgreSQL database, which is also available as an option with the Web Application Stack.
Java Web Application Stack: Red Hat's Java Web Application Stack is for more dynamic web applications, and includes support for all components of the Web Application Stack (LAMP + PostgreSQL), plus support for the Apache Tomcat Servlet and JSP container.
Included with this stack are support and updates for key Java development libraries and tools: Apache Struts, Apache Axis, Spring, Hibernate, Lucene, Ant, Junit, Jython, Log4J and key XML libraries.
Enterprise Java Stack: The Red Hat Enterprise Java Stack includes support for all components of the Java Web Application Stack above, plus support for a full Java application server based on ObjectWeb's J2EE-certified JOnAS project (already available as Red Hat Application Server). Like the Java Web Application Stack, the Enterprise Java Stack includes support for key Java development libraries, as well as MySQL or PostgreSQL.
"For the past few years, UBS has been using components of these stacks as a base for application development in our Linux environments. However cross-component integration was an ongoing issue," said Steve Russell, managing director, UBS Investment Bank. "Red Hat's move to certify and support full stacks integrated with the operating system better aligns them with our use of the technology. We applaud them for the initiative and anticipate it will bring needed maturity and manageability to the open source development platform."
Each Red Hat certified stack includes free access to Red Hat's Eclipse-based Developer Suite, and will be available as a layered subscription on top of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Red Hat is headquartered in Raleigh, NC with satellite offices spanning the globe. Red Hat is leading Linux and open source solutions into the mainstream by making high quality, low cost technology accessible. Red Hat provides operating system software along with middleware, applications and management solutions. Red Hat also offers support, training and consulting services to its customers worldwide and through top-tier partnerships. Red Hat's open source strategy offers customers a long term plan for building infrastructures that are based on and leverage open source technologies with focus on security and ease of management.
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