Free Availability of First Enterprise Application Integration

SuperNova Announces Free Availability of First Enterprise Application Integration Solution for Red Hat Linux Partnership with Red Hat to Extend Availability of Proven Component Developer Product to Rapidly Growing Linux User Base New York - May 4, 1999 - SuperNova, providers of reliable and adaptable software solutions for enterprise application development and integration, today announced it is offering the SuperNova Component Developer(tm) application development and integration solution free to Linux users through a partnership with Red Hat Software. SuperNova is the first Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) vendor to support Linux, the stable and secure open source operating system. SuperNova will be demonstrating and distributing Component Developer for Linux at the 5th Annual Linux Expo, May 18-22, 1999. "The growing Linux community presents an enormous opportunity for SuperNova as it significantly expands its user base for organizations looking to integrate their legacy, custom-built and packaged applications with new Linux applications," said Rob Hoogstraten, president and CEO of SuperNova. "As one of the first EAI vendors to offer enterprise-strength products for Linux, we continue to demonstrate our commitment to create flexible, reliable and interoperable solutions for our customers." Component Developer is an enterprise application integration and adapter development environment that supports over 20 operating systems and over 25 databases. Component Developer offers rich and advanced functionality that enables IT professionals to easily develop and customize an organization's integration solutions with minimal efforts. Using Component Developer for Red Hat Linux, users can rapidly develop and use portable and reusable adapters in the Linux operating environment. In addition, SuperNova's Integration Components, which include legacy application wrappers, application extenders, database connectors and package application adapters, can be easily integrated with the Linux operating system and applications. Red Hat Software is a leader in the development of open source software solutions and services. According to market research firm International Data Corporation (IDC), Linux commercial shipments will grow faster than the total shipments of all other client or server OS systems through 2003. IDC research also states that Linux was the fastest-growing server operating environment in 1998, growing more than 212 percent in that year alone and capturing more than 17 percent of all server operating system shipments. Today, Linux boasts more than 10 million users worldwide. "Linux as a viable enterprise platform is reinforced with the availability of SuperNova Component Developer, a proven tool for enterprise application development and integration," said Paul McNamara, vice president of Business Development, Red Hat Software. "SuperNova's leading-edge integration and development technology will enable enterprise developers to leverage and extend their existing applications by integrating them with a host of current and new Linux applications." SuperNova offers the basic Linux edition of Component Developer free of charge, with no time limit. It includes interfaces to FoxPro(tm), C-Tree(tm) and ASCII file formats. This free version is available as a non-commercial copy and requires the user to upgrade to the full version to receive support, additional documentation, availability of other databases and platforms and availability of other adapters such as SAP R/3 and Informix 4GL. SuperNova's Component Developer 7.0 for Red Hat Linux is available on the Linux Applications CD that ships with Red Hat Linux 6.0. In addition, it can be downloaded from the SuperNova Web site at www.supernova.com/linux. About Red Hat Software, Inc. Founded in 1994, Red Hat Software is based in Research Triangle Park, NC, where it is a leader in the development of open source software solutions. Red Hat Development builds the most accessible and advanced operating system available anywhere with technical innovations such as RPM and disk druid installation tool. Red Hat Linux is available for Intel, Compaq Alpha, and Sun SPARC platforms. Red Hat Linux was named InfoWorld's Product of the Year for three years in a row, was given a Productivity accolade in Software Development's "Jolt'" Awards, was named an Environment/Desktop finalist in the Ziff-Davis European Excellence Awards, won the editor's choice awards from both the Linux Journal and Australian Personal Computing magazines and won the "Just Plain Cool" award from Australian Personal Computing magazine. About SuperNova Since 1988, SuperNova has been providing reliable and adaptable software solutions for Enterprise Application Development and Integration, to over 300 customers with over 70,000 licenses around the world. SuperNova helps its customers to shorten their development and integration project cycles and to drastically reduce their software related expenses. SuperNova's corporate headquarters is located in Manhattan, New York and its international headquarters is in Bilthoven, The Netherlands, with subsidiaries and partners worldwide. 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