Red Hat, the market leader in Linux and open source solutions, today unveiled the Red Hat Linux Enterprise Edition Product Line. As part of its enterprise product strategy, Red Hat is working in conjunction with top software vendors to provide tested and integrated total Red Hat Linux solutions for business critical, high-volume, e-business and enterprise environments. Under the Red Hat Enterprise initiative, Red Hat recently announced the Red Hat Linux Enterprise Edition for Oracle 8i, Red Hat Linux Enterprise Edition for Computer Associates systems and storage management solutions and Red Hat Linux Enterprise Edition for SAP R/3.
Future Enterprise Editions will target other key application segments critical to enterprise computing and e-business, incIn keeping with its commitment to open source and the open source development community, Red Hat will continue to freely share all modifications to the Linux OS
with the open source community under public licenses.
"The Red Hat Linux Enterprise Edition product line focuses on the configuration, integration, tuning, and reliability issues that are critical to enterprise customers today," said Matthew Szulik, president and CEO of Red Hat, Inc. "We believe that the combination of Red Hat's technical leadership in the Linux development community and our partnerships with companies offering leading enterprise applications will enable Red Hat to deliver the best Linux platform for Linux customers."
"Our customers are increasingly choosing Red Hat Linux for its powerful performance, reliability and flexibility," said Ken Farber, senior vice president worldwide alliances, Computer Associates. "By working with Red Hat, the leading Linux brand, our joint customers benefit from combined efforts to deliver the most robust, powerful e-business solutions for the Linux platform."
"Red Hat's Enterprise edition offers customers the flexibility to build custom solution stacks on Red Hat Linux, the most popular Linux distribution, and Dell PowerEdge servers, the No. 2 PC server in the world," said Michael Lambert, senior vice president of Dell's Enterprise Systems Group.
"As a leading provider of servers for the Internet infrastructure, we support strategic initiatives that allow our customers to customise and optimise their computing centres for the new Internet economy."
"Our studies show that although Linux is new to the majority of IT managers, they are open to using Linux-based solutions," said Dan Kusnetzky, programme director operating environments and serverware, IDC.
"They are interested in the many strengths open source software offers but have some concerns about applications, tools, middleware, serverware, and support. The Red Hat Linux Enterprise Edition product line has the potential of reducing some of these concerns and is likely to accelerate the adoption of Linux."
Pricing and Availability The Red Hat Linux Enterprise Edition will support solutions for eBusiness, production database applications, systems and storage management, enterprise application servers, directory services, messaging and ERP. Subsequent Red Hat Linux Enterprise Editions will be announced in coming months. The pricing of the packages will vary, depending on the application and the service and support packages chosen by customers. See www.redhat.com for more information.
About Red Hat Services Red Hat's on-site consulting sets a new standard for enterprise-level support for Linux-based operating systems. 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 up to full, ongoing outsourced management of their complete Linux-based information management operation. Red Hat offers all the services needed to successfully install, integrate, manage and support open source solutions in today's rapidly growing enterprises. In recent months, Red Hat has greatly expanded its support offerings, including international training and certification for Red Hat Linux. In addition, Red Hat announced recently that enterprises such as Burlington Coat Factory Warehouse Corporation, Autozone and Amerada Hess have purchased support services from Red Hat for their Linux deployment.
About Red Hat, Inc. Founded in 1994, Red Hat (NASDAQ: RHAT) is a market leader in open source operating system (OS) software, services and information. Along with its award-winning open source Red Hat Linux OS, Red Hat offers a full line of services, including telephone support, on-site consulting, developer training, certification programmes and priority access updates, making Red Hat a leading resource for knowledgeable, innovative, mission-critical open source solutions.
Red Hat shares all of its software innovations freely with the open source community under the GNU General Public License (GPL). The Official Red Hat Linux OS and related services are available directly from the company and through its partner, distributor and reseller programmes, which include top PC and server manufacturers such as Compaq, Dell, Gateway, IBM, Hewlett-Packard and Silicon Graphics.
Red Hat Europe was established in July 1999 with its European headquarters based in Surrey, United Kingdom and offices throughout Europe. Red Hat Linux is sold and supported through a number of major distribution and industry partners throughout Europe.
Red Hat and the Official Red Hat Linux OS have received industry praise. Recent accolades include: Red Herring's Top 100 Companies of the Electronic Economy, Upside's Hot 100 Companies, Network World's 10 Companies to Watch, Federal Computer Week's Government Best Buy, Software Development's Jolt Award and InfoWorld's Product of the Year for three years in a row. Red Hat was also voted a "LinuxWorld Favorite" by the attendees of the two most recent LinuxWorld Expos, winning Best Server Distribution at the August show.
Red Hat is based in Durham, N.C. and has offices worldwide. Visit Red Hat on the Web at www.redhat.com. For investor inquiries, contact Lippert/Heilshorn at (212) 838-3777.
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