Red Hat and JBoss Empower Developers through Support for Google Web Toolkit and Other Popular Frameworks

Raleigh, NC - December 11, 2008 - Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that the company has signed the Google Contributor Agreement. The agreement brings Red Hat’s world-class developer and production support to Google Web Toolkit (GWT) as well as support for JBoss, the global leader in open source middleware software.

Launched in 2006, GWT is an open source project that helps Java developers harness the richness of AJAX in a cross-platform, web-friendly environment. The mission of Google Web Toolkit is to radically improve the web experience for users by enabling developers to use existing Java tools to build no-compromise AJAX for any modern browser. GWT has emerged as a popular Java software development platform for developers creating sophisticated, high performing web applications, as it provides a rich experience that traditional UI technologies for Java EE cannot deliver.

In addition to signing the Contributor Agreement, Red Hat announced that the company has completed some preliminary integration with GWT and the JBoss Seam Framework. Through the integration, Red Hat is leveraging Seam’s open and pluggable architecture so that developers can easily combine the power of enterprise Java with the modern view-layer technologies like GWT, RichFaces and Spring to develop Rich Internet Applications.

“The flexibility and open architecture of JBoss Seam 2.0 made this integration with Google Web Toolkit and partnership with Google possible,” said Craig Muzilla, vice president of Red Hat’s middleware business. “By partnering with Google, JBoss is demonstrating our commitment to fostering developer choice. We believe developers should be able to select technology such as GWT, Spring Framework and Adobe Flex while using JBoss to provide the best operational and most flexible platform for running their applications.”

The announcement continues Red Hat’s history of partnership with Google on a number of initiatives. Most recently, Google selected a combined group from the Fedora Project and JBoss.org Community as a mentoring organization for the Google Summer of Code 2008, a program that offers student developers stipends to write code for open source projects. In 2007, Red Hat introduced JBoss Portal integration with Google Gadgets, enabling developers to easily add pre-built Google Gadget components onto a portal, and Google announced the open source availability of Hibernate Shards, a framework developed by Google software engineers that adds support for horizontal partitioning to JBoss Hibernate Framework.

“We’re extremely happy to be working with Red Hat to ensure that developers can easily work with Google Web Toolkit and the JBoss Seam Framework,” says Bruce Johnson, Google Engineering Manager and co-creator of Google Web Toolkit. “We want developers to easily use Google developer products with their favorite Java programming tools, and this is yet another step in that direction.”

In the coming months, Red Hat will provide support for Google Web Toolkit as part of the JBoss Enterprise Application Platform subscription. For more news about Red Hat, visit www.redhat.com . For more news, more often, visit www.press.redhat.com .

Source: Red Hat

Independent research firm Forrester Research has in its latest tech market report titled ‘US IT Market Outlook: Q4 2008′ revised its 2009 US IT spending forecast. It is now projecting 1.6 per cent annual growth as against 6.1 per cent in US IT spending in 2009, stating that the US IT market outlook is down but not as bad as the 2001-02 tech depression. On the other hand, the report notes that the IT consulting and systems integration services will hit the wall in 2009 and IT outsourcing growth will remain moderate in 2009 and 2010.

While IT outsourcing will get a small lift from the economic slowdown in 2008 as companies turn to vendors that can help cut IT costs, the growth in IT outsourcing revenues will remain moderate. This will be owing to trends toward use of lower-cost offshore resources, smaller scale outsourcing deals and the 9-15 month lag from the decision to outsource. One area of growth is likely to be demand for managed network services offerings, which vendors are pushing and clients are increasingly adopting, the report said.

The US tech market forecast assumes that the decline in US real GDP in Q3 2008 will accelerate in Q4 2008 and the first half of 2009 before a weak recovery starts in the second half.

The report is based on analysis of US Department of Commerce data and financial reports of 49 IT vendors, and details the current IT spending across computer hardware, software, communications equipment, and services. Andrew Bartels, vice-president, Forrester Research, who authored the report said in a statement that the recession in the US would last into mid-2009, with declines in real GDP of as much as 3.6 per cent on a quarterly basis. “This kind of decline in the economy will pull growth in US business and government purchases of IT goods and services down to 1.6 per cent in 2009, from 4.1 per cent growth in 2008. The weakening of the US tech market was already evident in the Q3 2008 data, which showed US revenues of large vendors down by 2 per cent,” Bartels noted.

The report states that the recession will not be a replay of the 2001-2002 downturn, when tech vendors saw big drops in revenues. “This time, computer equipment vendors will see declines of 5-10 per cent in US revenues on a quarterly basis, not the 20-25 per cent drops of the early 2000s. Sellers of communications equipment, software, and IT consulting and outsourcing services will see one or two quarters of declining revenues, but on average will still grow modestly in 2009. So, IT vendors need to have a plan that mirrors what will happen in their sector,” Bartels cautioned.

The report expects financial services, consumer durables, construction and housing, retail, and industrial products (including automobiles) to be the industries most likely to cut back IT purchases in 2008 and 2009. The financial services industry is expected to cut IT purchases by 3 per cent in 2008 and 4 per cent in 2009, and the construction industry by 2 per cent in 2008 and 2009. The retail industry will have no growth in IT purchases in 2009, and IT buying by industrial manufacturing will slow to 1 per cent in 2009, Forrester says, adding that state and local government IT spending will also be weak.

The report notes that the BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India and China) markets are still growing, raising hopes for US export growth to continue. While the major industrial economies have gone into recession, emerging markets like BRIC are still growing, though at a slower pace than in 2007 and early 2008.

The combination of a somewhat weaker dollar in the near term and still-growing emerging markets suggest that US export growth may not collapse.

Indian IT outsourcing and consulting services vendors have seen 3 per cent decline in US revenues in the third quarter (ended September) of 2008. Even Indian vendors saw revenue growth slip to less than 20 per cent, with Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) posting just a 6 per cent increase )see table). Infosys and Accenture had the strongest growth in US IT services revenues at 17 per cent, though still below Q2 figures, Forrester said.

Bangalore, December 11, 2008:

Wipro Infotech, the India and Middle East IT Business of Wipro Ltd and a leading provider of IT and business transformation services, today announced the launch of Wipro HIS Lite, a Hospital Information System in the SaaS model also known as “Pay per Use” model at Paras Hospital in Ghaziabad near New Delhi. Wipro HIS Lite is a comprehensive hospital information system tailor-made for the small hospital and nursing home segment.

For the first time in India, Wipro brings the innovative “Pay Per Use” model for the small hospital and nursing home community where traditionally investing heavily in buying hardware software and maintenance was a deterrent towards IT automation. The traditional model not only required a substantial commitment of financial resources, it also needed manpower, space, power and air-conditioning. In the “pay per use” model the hospitals have to pay just a monthly user based subscription fee and hence even very small hospitals with few users can use the service which aims at addressing the challenges faced by the healthcare provider community. The system will help doctors maintain patient data efficiently, provide better care and diagnosis to their patients, reduce patient waiting time by managing the services and billing processes better. It also drives profitability in the hospitals through strong MIS and business intelligence and provides integration among all departments of the hospital.

Mr. Prasenjit Lahiri, Head Business Operations - Wipro HealthCare IT said, “Wipro Healthcare has introduced the concept of “SaaS” or the “Pay Per Use model” for its Hospital Information System, Wipro HIS Lite which is a completely integrated and comprehensive software which automates the processes of the hospital and makes information management simple and user friendly. All that is required is a dedicated connectivity to the Wipro server in the datacenter and hospitals can use the software on a real-time basis like it is in their own office.” He also added that “there are more than 20,000 small hospitals and nursing home establishments in India, which provides Wipro a tremendous opportunity for market penetration. For this Wipro is also adding other service lines in the same model like electronic medical records on the web and specialty modules for GPs and Specialist Consultants”.

Dr Deepak Jain., Medical Director, Paras hospitals said, “We have decided to go in for the Pay per Use Model because it reduces our one-time investment and also takes away our headaches of running, maintaining, upgrading the software. In a small set up it is not only cost effective; it is very simple and convenient too”.

Dr Sanjeev Bansal, Chairman and Managing Director, Bansal hospitals who has also decided to adopt the “Pay Per Use” Model of using the Hospital Information System said “In this model my hospital staff need not spend time on running and maintaining the server and application. It frees my staff to concentrate on their work and Wipro is responsible for managing and running the software and hardware infrastructure”.

source: Wipro