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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

AMD and Red Hat Demonstrate Live Migration of Virtual Machines Across Vendor Platforms: See For Yourself

SUNNYVALE, Calif. — November 6, 2008 — AMD (NYSE: AMD), in collaboration with Red Hat, today demonstrated for the first time “live migration” of a virtual machine across vendor platforms. Live migration enables the movement of running virtual machines (VMs) from one physical server to another without disrupting service to the end user, something that, till now, has only been demonstrated across systems based on one vendor’s platforms. Today’s live migration demonstration moves a live VM from an dual socket Intel Xeon DP Quad Core E5420-based system to a system based on the forthcoming 45nm Quad-Core AMD Opteron™ processor, utilizing Red Hat’s high-performance open source virtualization software. See the demonstration on the AMD Unprocessed YouTube Channel http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuhU6jJjpAQ or on AMD at http://www.amd.com/amdlivemigration01 .Industry interest in live migration has grown as virtualization technology has become more widely adopted. Live Migration of VMs across physical servers is a vital component of data center management that enables IT managers to move VMs as necessary in order to perform tasks such as upgrading or conducting maintenance of a server, balancing the server load and proactively managing the server availability to avoid downtime or lost data. The demonstration illustrates AMD’s approach to an open and collaborative relationship with its partners to meet customer demands.

Red Hat and AMD were able to achieve this feat through the combination of Red Hat’s innovative, high-performing virtualization technology and the consistent and reliable architecture of the AMD Opteron processor.

“While developing this capability has been a challenge, we are proud to work with Red Hat to demonstrate it is possible,” said Margaret Lewis, director, Commercial Solutions and Software Strategy, AMD. “We are dedicated to working with technology partners, and even our competitors, to help bring solutions to market that address the needs of our industry.”

“The demonstration of high-performance virtualization and live migration between heterogeneous server platforms helps to illustrate Red Hat’s commitment to open, standards-based infrastructure,” said Navin Thadani, Senior Director, Virtualization Business at Red Hat. “We are fully committed to bringing the highly successful open source model to the virtualization domain. With it, Red Hat delivers leading, standards-based virtualization solutions in terms of scalability, security and cost-performance.”

For more information on AMD virtualization and processor technology, please visit:

http://www.amd.com/virtualization .

To read more about Margaret Lewis’s thoughts on virtualization, please visit:

http://blogs.amd.com/virtualization .

Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that Red Hat Enterprise Linux has achieved a powerful, record-setting TPC-C benchmark that demonstrates the rapid improvements that open source software can bring to overall performance and costs. In its fifth TPC-C result over 1M tpmC, Red Hat improved price performance to a level 20 percent lower than the best competing non-Red-Hat result with a combination of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2 on an IBM System x 3950 M2 with the new Intel X7460 Xeon processor.

In its latest 1M tpmC benchmark, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2 outperformed all other operating systems on price performance in the 1M+ range. The Red Hat-based benchmark system delivered 1,200,632 transactions per minute and improved the price performance to $1.99, delivering a 20 percent savings in comparison to competitors.¹ The single system proves its capability to handle substantial transactional workloads with its ability to process over 20,000 transactions per second.

“Red Hat Enterprise Linux provides an extremely capable and reliable platform for customers’ heavily demanding high-performance, high-scale platforms,” said Scott Crenshaw, vice president, Platform Business Unit at Red Hat. “We broke our first 1M tpmC barrier back in December 2003, which was two years before others in the industry, like Microsoft, reported their first 1M TPC-C results. With our latest record-breaking benchmark, we’ve again raised the bar for performance and cost-efficiency and have demonstrated proven benefits from the fast-innovating open source model.”

In addition to its ability to handle challenging, high transaction-intensive jobs, the Red Hat-based, IBM solution offers headroom for growth and the opportunity to run simultaneous background jobs to produce bills and consolidate invoices, all while providing rapid response to customer orders and queries. In this TPC-C result, Red Hat also broke 100,000 operations per second per Java Virtual Machine for both bare-metal and virtual instances. The overhead of virtualization registered at only 6 percent, proving the excellent performance delivered through Red Hat Integrated Virtualization technology.

“Through this record-breaking TPC-C benchmark, IBM has demonstrated our unique ability to deliver high performance for Linux workloads, leveraging the scalability of the industry’s only Intel-based 8-socket server,” said Sergio Amoni, director of Marketing, IBM System x. “Because IBM innovates with its own chipset for Intel-based servers, clients can take full advantage of the high performance x3950 M2 system with unbeatable reliability and power and memory technologies capable of up to 37 percent lower overall power consumption.”

Source: RedHat