Second installment of Red Hat Software Collections delivers
comprehensive suite of dynamic languages, open source databases and web
development tools
RALEIGH, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source
solutions, today announced the general availability of Red Hat Software
Collections 1.1, the second iteration of Red Hat's comprehensive suite
of powerful web development tools, dynamic languages and open source
databases. Delivered on a separate life cycle from Red Hat Enterprise
Linux with a more frequent release cadence, Red Hat Software Collections
puts the latest stable open source runtime components, as tested and
verified by Red Hat on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, in the hands of
developers faster, accelerating the creation and deployment of modern
web applications.
Red Hat Software Collections 1.1 bridges developer agility and
production stability by providing a compelling solution to organizations
seeking to leverage agile methods as a means of boosting the pace of
software delivery. Enterprises can deploy applications built with Red
Hat Software Collections 1.1 with confidence, as each release of Red Hat
Software Collections is backed by Red Hat's award-winning support for
three years.
Red Hat Software Collections 1.1 includes:
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The latest stable versions of popular dynamic languages and
platforms, including:
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Ruby 1.9.3 with Rails 3.2.8
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Python 2.7 and 3.3
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PHP 5.4 and 5.5
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Perl 5.16.3
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Node.js 0.10 as a Technology Preview
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Ruby 2.0 and Rails 4.0, featured as individual collections,
enabling developers to install an updated version of Ruby without
necessarily having to install Rails.
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The latest stable versions of open source databases, including:
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MySQL 5.5 and PostgreSQL 9.2, popular open source databases for
web applications
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MariaDB 5.5, an easy-to-adopt alternative to MySQL
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MongoDB 2.4, a high performance document database that provides
high availability and easy scalability.
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Two open source HTTP server options, with full support for Apache
HTTP Server 2.4 and a Technology Preview of Nginx 1.4.4.
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Thermostat 1.0, a useful tool for monitoring JVM instances on
multiple hosts.
Organizations seeking to leverage the open hybrid cloud also benefit
from Red Hat Software Collections 1.1, as applications built using Red
Hat Software Collections can be deployed across multiple versions of Red
Hat Enterprise Linux and OpenShift by Red Hat, providing flexibility
across physical, virtual and cloud environments.
Customers with active Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 subscriptions who do
not see Red Hat Software Collections channels can visit: www.redhat.com/GetRedHatSoftwareCollections.html
Supporting Quotes
Jim Totton, vice president, Platform Business Unit, Red Hat
"Red Hat Software Collections is more than just access to the latest and
greatest open source languages and databases - it helps to effectively
link development and operations teams. By bridging developer agility and
production stability, organizations leveraging Red Hat Software
Collections can gain increased application nimbleness and achieve faster
development and deployment cycles without risking mission-critical
systems and applications on untried, untested and unsupported
technologies."
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