Red Hat and Hyperic Extend Collaboration on Open Source Systems Management Technology
Posted: 11-14-2007 : RALEIGH, N.C. & SAN FRANCISCO

RALEIGH, N.C. & SAN FRANCISCO -- Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, and Hyperic Inc., the leader in multi-platform, open source systems management, today announced that they have extended their agreement to collaborate on the development of a common systems management platform. Development will continue under an open source model.

For years, the JBoss Operations Network team has been developing code on the Hyperic platform. Red Hat will be contributing its updates and enhancements to this new open source project. Both companies will work to maintain, govern and extend management capabilities within the new open source systems management platform project. Additionally, Hyperic and Red Hat will work jointly to include this base in both future Hyperic and Red Hat systems management products.

“Hyperic is committed to improving the manageability of technology everywhere,” said Javier Soltero, CEO of Hyperic. “This relationship furthers our mission by enabling ISV’s, hardware vendors and users to contribute to and extend our base platform with tight management of any network, desktop, server, OS, DB, Middleware or application technology.”

In keeping with the open source development model, Red Hat and Hyperic will share an open source code repository hosted by Hyperic. The community will have full access to the code base via the GPL license. Red Hat and Hyperic will collaborate on a development and governance roadmap for the common technology that will enable both companies to produce innovative solutions for systems management.

“The combination of Red Hat and Hyperic open source technology is more than the sum of its parts,” said Craig Muzilla, vice president, Middleware Products at Red Hat. “Now, companies have access to a powerful blend of our management depth for the Red Hat platform, and an extended community building from the same core technology.”

For more information about Red Hat solutions, visit www.redhat.com. For more information about Hyperic solutions, visit www.hyperic.com.

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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 three consecutive years in the CIO Insight Magazine Vendor Value study. Red Hat provides high-quality, low-cost 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.