SpringSource Announces General Availability of SpringSource Enterprise

SpringSource Enterprise released to help customers develop and run Spring-powered enterprise applications more productively, securely and with the greatest uptime

SANTA CLARA, Calif.—July 22, 2008— SpringSource, the company behind Spring, the de facto standard in enterprise Java, and a leading provider of infrastructure software, today announced the general availability of SpringSource Enterprise. SpringSource Enterprise delivers the software, services, and technical support necessary to develop and run Spring-powered enterprise applications more productively, securely and with the greatest uptime.

“The application landscape is undergoing significant change, as developers and architects demand a combination of powerful capabilities and simplicity in the next generation of enterprise applications,” said Peter Cooper-Ellis, SpringSource senior vice president of engineering and product management. “The commercial release of SpringSource Enterprise, coupled with the recent introduction of the SpringSource Application Platform, delivers more flexible and modular alternatives that the market is looking for in their application infrastructure.” 

“As the company behind a network of more than 24 million experienced professionals from around the world, we need premier development support. SpringSource Enterprise offers a great set of software solutions, now with full support,” said Arnold Goldberg, Vice President of Software Engineering at LinkedIn. “We are thrilled to be collaborating with SpringSource on their roadmap to continue supporting a high-transaction, high-volume Web company.

“We chose SpringSource Enterprise because it offers hands on, responsive commercial support for our large enterprise projects,” said Mark Schwartz, Architect Manager at one of the nation’s leading healthcare benefits company, Aetna. “The support comes directly from the experts who created Spring. You can’t get any better than that for timely and accurate resolution of the kinds of problems we see on a daily basis in the software development process.”

Availability

SpringSource Enterprise includes the SpringSource Application Management Suite, the SpringSource Tool Suite, and the SpringSource Advanced Pack for Oracle Database. All three products are part of SpringSource’s Performance Suite that provides comprehensive application monitoring and management capabilities, next-generation application development tools and advanced database integration capabilities.. SpringSource Enterprise  is immediately available.  For more information and to download, please visit http://www.springsource.com/products/enterprise.

 SpringSource Application Management Suite

SpringSource Application Management Suite (AMS) is a comprehensive enterprise application management tool.  It is designed to manage and monitor all Spring-powered applications, the Spring runtime and a variety of platforms and application servers. SpringSource AMS provides a single console with powerful dashboards that enable a user to easily check the health of applications. With SpringSource AMS, developers and operations staff can monitor application performance, reduce application downtime, enforce service-level agreements, analyze trends over time, and much more.

SpringSource Tool Suite

The SpringSource Tool Suite is an Eclipse-powered development environment for building enterprise applications using the Spring Portfolio. The tool suite incorporates a task-focused user interface to speed development, architecture review tools to guide developers toward best practices, and runtime error analysis with automated resolution lookup to help developers solve problems in running applications. These features make the SpringSource Tool Suite the most comprehensive development tool in the market for building Spring-powered applications.

SpringSource Advanced Pack for Oracle Database

SpringSource Advanced Pack for Oracle Database enables enterprise Java applications using the Spring Portfolio to leverage powerful features only available in the Oracle database. The Advanced Pack for Oracle Database does this without any code changes to the Spring Beans running in the application. Getting more reliable, flexible, and better performing applications is now possible without compromising the integrity of the business model objects. SpringSource Advanced Pack for Oracle finally allows the investment in high performing databases to be realized in the application tier.

About SpringSource

SpringSource is the company behind Spring, the de facto standard in enterprise Java. SpringSource is a leading provider of enterprise Java infrastructure software, and delivers enterprise class software, support and services to help organizations utilize Spring and, through its acquisition of Covalent, manage infrastructure technologies from the Apache Software Foundation. Nearly half of the Global 2000, including many of the world’s largest financial institutions, retailers, manufacturers, healthcare, technology and public sector clients are SpringSource customers. For more information visit:  www.springsource.com.

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