Red Hat Expands Red Hat Developer Program with No-Cost Red Hat Enterprise Linux Developer Subscription
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Developer Suite now available through
no-cost developer subscription, helping to streamline the creation of
traditional and cloud-native enterprise applications
RALEIGH, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source
solutions, today announced the availability of a no-cost Red Hat
Enterprise Linux subscription, available as part of the Red Hat
Developer Program. Offered as a self-supported, non-production developer
subscription, the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Developer Suite provides
developers with a more stable development platform for building
enterprise-grade applications and enables a clear pathway to supported,
mission-critical deployments across cloud, physical, virtual and
container-centric infrastructures.
Launched at DevNation 2015, the Red Hat Developer Program continues to
evolve to help meet the demands of enterprise developers, offering
simplified access to content, tools, and resources that enable
enterprise developers be more successful with Red Hat products. This
catalog of resources now includes access to Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Developer Suite as well as the Red Hat JBoss Middleware portfolio, both
available via no-cost developer subscriptions. These subscriptions
enable developers to more easily access Red Hat’s enterprise-grade
technologies for local application development only; production use
requires a paid subscription level.
With the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Developer Suite, developers have
access to a broad and up-to-date set of development tools, in addition
to the latest version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server, enabling the
creation of modern applications for deployment across the hybrid cloud.
In addition, enterprise IT teams who are embarking on modern application
development, through DevOps, CI/CD or other practices, can now have a
more simple and efficient environment with platform compatibility across
development and deployment.
For those building cloud-native applications and/or microservices, this
new no-cost development subscription also offers access to the Red Hat
Container Development Kit (CDK), Red Hat’s curated collection of
container development tools and resources. CDK users will have access to
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server and a local desktop instance of
OpenShift Enterprise for development use - providing a powerful
configuration for container-based application development.
Through the Red Hat Developer Program, the no-cost Red Hat Enterprise
Linux Developer Suite provides application developers with a substantial
set of products and components, including:
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - An application development
entitlement to the world’s leading enterprise Linux platform.
- Development tools with long-term support - Each major Red Hat
Enterprise Linux release includes a broad set of base tools that, like
the operating system, are supported for 10 years; including Python,
PHP, Ruby, OpenJDK 7 (1.7), OpenJDK 8 (1.8) and many more.
- Developmenttools with frequent updates - Multiple open
source programming languages, databases, web servers, and development
tools are updated yearly with the most recent, stable versions, and
are packaged via Red
Hat Software Collections and Red
Hat Developer Toolset.
Visit developers.redhat.com
to get started today.
Supporting Quotes
Harry Mower, senior director, Developer Tools and Marketing, Red Hat
“The Red Hat Developer Program exists to give developers greater access
to our technology and to help developers be successful with Red Hat
products. With Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat JBoss Middleware
available through the program at no cost, developers can more easily use
our technology to start projects and explore solutions while having
confidence that their chosen development platforms and tools can be
supported in production, without porting or incompatibility issues.”
Al Hilwa, program director, Application Development Software, IDC
"One of the foundational goals of the DevOps movement is to eliminate
differences between development and production environments. Developers
will appreciate having access to free capabilities that will enable them
to work on a consistent stack."
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