What are they?
Red Hat Applications extend the benefits of open source beyond the operating system. The family of products is optimized for Red Hat Enterprise Linux and includes both open source applications and operating system enhancements. Products are sold by annual subscription and are supported by a range of Red Hat Services. With Red Hat Enterprise Linux as the platform, Red Hat Network as the management infrastructure, and Red Hat Applications in the middleware and application layers, the benefits of open source solutions can be realized across a complete system deployment.
What do they do?
Red Hat Applications include software for managing Web content, software development, and high availability clusters of Linux systems. In the middleware layer Red Hat Cluster Suite provides the ability to make applications highly available. In the application layer, Red Hat Portal Server and Red Hat Content Management System provide comprehensive, Java-based, multi-platform website content management and delivery capabilities. And Red Hat Developer Suite provides an Integrated Development Environment for application developers. This growing family of products provides a range of capabilities to enhance an overall Red Hat Enterprise Linux solution.
Why should I care?
Red Hat Applications offer all the benefits of open source: the rapid innovation of the open source development model, full control and freedom from proprietary lock-in, and open standards that won't restrict your choice of architecture. And just like Red Hat Enterprise Linux, all have the support of Red Hat's enterprise-class engineering and services organizations behind them.
The Red Hat Applications Family:
Red Hat Cluster Suite
Two clustering technologies in a single product. High availability clustering using application failover technology ensures applications are available at all times. IP load balancing technology provides performance and availability improvements for network-intensive applications.
Red Hat Content Management System
A complete workflow-based engine for managing content in intranet, extranet, and Internet settings. CMS allows companies to expand the contributor base while improving cohesiveness and control of content.
Red Hat Developer Suite
An Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for application developers, based on the open source Eclipse project.
Red Hat Portal Server
A servlet-based framework for personalized and group-oriented aggregation and delivery of information. Provides access to new and existing applications in an organization's infrastructure and presents the information in a centralized way.
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