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Major New Release Provides High Availability, Enhanced Scalability and High Performance

Redwood Shores, Calif. – November 9, 2009 -- Oracle today announced the new release of Oracle® Berkeley DB Java Edition 4.0 including significant new features for high availability, scalability and performance, and demonstrating Oracle’s continuing commitment to open source, Java and the developer community.

Sun Ray Software 5 Debuts New Software Client Enabling Centralized Desktop Access From Windows PCs

SANTA CLARA, Calif. November 10, 2009 Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA) today announced the availability of Sun Ray Software 5, which brings remarkable enhancements to the virtual desktop experience and helps to increase data center efficiency. Sun Ray Software 5 is a secure, cost effective solution that delivers a rich, virtual Windows, Linux or Solaris Operating System desktop to nearly any client device including Windows PCs and Sun Ray thin clients.

JBoss Enterprise Application Platform Positioned In Leading Industry Analyst Firm's Middleware Study

Raleigh, NC - November 9, 2009 - Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that it has been positioned in the Leaders Quadrant in Gartner, Inc.'s "Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Application Servers".

On-the-go photo editing and management made effortless with new Photoshop.com mobile application

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Nov. 6, 2009 — Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today introduced the Photoshop.com Mobile for Android™ software, extending Adobe® industry-leading digital imaging technology to users of the Google Mobile™ operating system. The release comes less than a month after the launch of Photoshop.com Mobile for iPhone, which quickly established itself as one of the “Top Free” applications on the Apple mobile platform.

Trusted open source leader receives the highest rank among software vendors for reliability and value

Raleigh, NC - October 20, 2009 - Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that it has received the highest rank among software vendors in Ziff Davis' 2009 "CIO Insight Vendor Value" study, which polls IT executives on the value of their vendors' product and service offerings.

Server virtualization certifications provide customers with joint support for today's leading virtualization and operating system platforms

Raleigh, NC - October 7, 2009 - Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that customers can now deploy fully supported virtualization environments that combine Microsoft Windows Server and Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Melco Group’s customers will receive patent covenants for their use of devices running Linux and related open source software

REDMOND, WA and NAGOYA, Japan, July 15, 2009 -- Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) and Melco Holdings Inc., parent company of Buffalo Inc. and Buffalo Group (“Melco Group”), have entered into an agreement that will provide Melco Group’s customers with patent coverage for their use of industry-leading technologies running Linux and other related open source software.

Latest Forecast Shows Spending Declines Across Hardware, Software, IT Services and Telecommunications Sectors

STAMFORD, CT, July 7, 2009 -- Worldwide IT spending is on pace to total $3.2 trillion in 2009, a 6 percent decline from 2008 spending of $3.4 trillion, according to Gartner, Inc. (NYSE: IT). Continued weak IT spending because of the economic situation combined with the effect of exchange rate movements has resulted in Gartner lowering its 2009 forecast from its 1Q09 projection. In March of this year, Gartner had forecast 2009 IT spending to decline 3.8 percent.

IDC Expects the Asia/Pacific Infrastructure Management Software Market to Improve in 2010 as the Economic Crisis Bottoms Out

Singapore and Hong Kong, July 3, 2009 -- The IDC Asia/Pacific Semiannual Software Tracker results for 2H2008 have revealed that the global economic crisis has blunted the double-digit growth rates the infrastructure management (IM) software market had been experiencing in the periods leading up to 2008. Defined here as consisting of the system and network management software and storage software, the IM software market has however, managed to continue to grow.

Intelligent, Open Source Compiler Provides Automated Advice on Software Code Optimization

HAIFA, Israel and ARMONK, NY, June 30, 2009 -- IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced the public availability of Milepost GCC, the world's first open source machine learning compiler. The compiler intelligently optimizes applications, translating directly into shorter software development times and bigger performance gains.

Initial IBM experiments conducted on IBM System p servers achieved an average 18 percent performance improvement on embedded-application benchmarks.