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JBoss, a division of Red Hat (NASDAQ: RHAT), today announced that Gartner, Inc. has positioned JBoss in the Leaders Quadrant in the 2Q06 Enterprise Application Servers Magic Quadrant(1). According to Gartner, vendors listed in the Leaders Quadrant are performing well today, have a clear vision of market direction and are actively building competencies to sustain their leadership position in the market. "We believe our position in the Leaders Quadrant confirms our model of building great software, distributing it under an open source license, and backing it up with high-value subscription services," said Marc Fleury, senior vice president and general manager of the JBoss Division, Red Hat. "It's a simple formula that is disrupting the software business and ultimately delivers greater value to our enterprise customers. This vision, backed by our proven ability to execute, is driving mass adoption of JBoss as a foundation for service-oriented architecture and Web 2.0 applications." Gartner noted, "Vendors that are strong in the record of their execution and their ability to follow and influence the market are labeled 'market leaders.'" Vendors were evaluated on their ability to execute, which reflects the staying power and record of execution of vendors in the market, and the completeness of vision, which reflects the vendors' ability to understand the market trends, influence them, and follow them with agility and consistency. With over eight million downloads, the JBoss Application Server is the centerpiece of the JBoss Enterprise Middleware Suite (JEMS), the leading open source platform for (SOA). JEMS offers a pluggable architecture that allows enterprises to use as much or as little of the platform with room to expand as their business needs grow. For more information about JEMS, visit http://jboss.com/products/index. About the Magic Quadrant The Magic Quadrant is copyrighted August 2006 by Gartner, Inc. and is reused with permission. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner's analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors placed in the "Leaders" quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is intended solely as a research tool, and is not meant to be a specific guide to action. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. About Red Hat, Inc. Red Hat, the world's leading open source and Linux provider, is headquartered in Raleigh, NC with satellite offices spanning the globe. 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