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Red Hat, the leading provider of open source solutions, and IBM today announced a worldwide licensing and distribution agreement for IBM's Java software for Linux critical components of today's enterprise and e-commerce Internet applications.
Under the agreement, Red Hat will license and distribute IBM's Java Runtime engine, Java Virtual Machine (JVM) and the IBM Developer Kit for Linux, Java Technology Edition. IBM's JavaTechnology will be distributed with the Red Hat Linux Operating Systems (OS) Enterprise Edition. Red Hat will provide worldwide support contact for users of the IBM Java Technology as they create and deploy Java-based Internet solutions on Red Hat Linux.
Colin Tenwick Vice President Red Hat, Europe, Middle East and Africa said "Users worldwide can now leverage Red Hat as a complete, trusted source to help them quickly create and deploy Java-based, enterprise e-business applications for Linux. The combination of Red Hat's unmatched open source expertise and Java's write-once, deploy anywhere functionality lets companies effortlessly and confidently migrate e-commerce applications written in Java to the Red Hat Linux
platform for maximum performance, scalability and stability."
According to research firm NetCraft, Inc. (www.netcraft.com), 29 per cent of
all public Web servers run on Linux, making Linux the most popular operating system for Web servers. International Data Corp. (IDC) also states that Red Hat Linux is by far the most popular distribution, preferred by 68.7 per cent of U.S. Linux users.
"We are pleased Red Hat will distribute IBM's Developer Kit for Linux to bring Java's cross-platform capabilities to Linux, " said Rod Smith, Vice President of Java Software, IBM. "Open standards and community source technologies are playing an increasingly important role in the evolution of e-business."
About Red Hat Services From installation and configuration support to
certification programs to consulting, Red Hat services set a new standard for enterprise-level support for Linux-based operating systems. Red Hat continues to grow its support offerings, including the international expansion of its popular Red Hat Certified Engineer training and certification courses for Red Hat Linux. Red Hat also offers Developer Training courses.
With more than 350 expert consultants, Red Hat and its partners offer Red Hat Linux consulting services, including: on-site consulting; strategy formation; planning; evaluation; classification and organisation; training;
implementation; recurring operations and audit. Red Hat Linux-based enterprise IT operations can choose anything from initial installation help to full, ongoing outsourced management of their complete Linux-based information management operation. Red Hat offers all the services needed to successfully instal, integrate, manage and support open source solutions in today's rapidly growing enterprises.
Enterprises such as AutoZone and Burlington Coat Factory Warehouse Corporation have also chosen Red Hat for services. For more information about Red Hat services and support solutions, see
www.redhat.com/products/support_solutions.html.
About Red Hat, Inc.
Founded in 1994, Red Hat is a leader in the development of
Linux-based operating system software (OS) and services. Based in Durham, N.C., Red Hat builds the most accessible and advanced server OS available anywhere with technical innovations such as RPM and the disk druid installation tool.
Red Hat Linux is available for Intel, Compaq Alpha and Sun SPARC platforms. Red Hat Linux available directly from the company and through Red Hat's partner, distributor and reseller programs, which include top PC and server manufacturers like Dell, IBM and Hewlett-Packard.
Red Hat Linux was named InfoWorld's Product of the Year for four 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 the Linux Journal and Australian Personal Computing magazines, and won the 'Just Plain Cool' award from Australian Personal Computing magazine.
At March's LinuxWorld Expo, more than 8,000 members of the Linux community voted Red Hat a 'LinuxWorld Favorite'. Red Hat Linux recently won a Product Excellence award from Software Development Magazine.
LINUX is a trademark of Linus Torvalds. RED HAT is a registered trademark of Red Hat, Inc. UNIX is a registered trademark of The Open Group. All other names and trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
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