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Red Hat, the leader in open source Internet infrastructure solutions, today announced that over 4,000 engineers have completed Red Hat's Training and Certification programme. Since the inception of formal training and certification programmes in December 1998, over 4,200 people have come through Red Hat's training courses including executives from Yahoo's Broadcast.com, Solar Systems Networks and Consolidated Telephone Co. Red Hat Services and select training partners, including Global Knowledge and IBM Global Services, administer the popular Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) course series, which is a hands-on, real-world training experience that harnesses the power of Linux in the enterprise. Red Hat training and certification is available at over 200 training centres worldwide.
``The greatest benefit of Red Hat's training is that it's truly hands-on?even the test at the course's conclusion,'' said Lee Heath, technical staff for Yahoo's Broadcast.com and RHCE graduate. ``By the end, I hadn't just learned how to optimise my Linux experience, but I had earned the real-life experience as well. The RHCE course taught me about the Linux tools I needed to be more productive, and was comprehensive and appropriately difficult.''
Red Hat's certification programme is taught by experienced RHCE-trained engineers and offers more than traditional, multiple-choice written exams and ``paper certifications.'' RHCE certification requires success on performance-based practical exams, in which users actually demonstrate the ability to: install and configure Red Hat Linux, set up common network (IP) services, and perform essential administration, diagnostic tests and troubleshooting, among other Internetworking and system administration tasks. Red Hat courses are available at levels appropriate for both beginners and networking professionals looking to migrate to open source solutions and build or expand their experience with Linux-based operating systems.
``As a Field Manager for Solar Systems Networking, Inc., every day I analyse and make decisions to meet my clients' growing network infrastructure needs. By attending Red Hat's RHCE program I am able to confidently review my client's Linux needs and provide them with the best of breed decisions as well as educate my staff,'' said Darrell T. McGuire, vice president of research and development for Solar Systems Networking, Inc. and RHCE graduate. ``I was impressed with the level of human networking that Red Hat's RHCE 300 class provided as well as quality of information and the large attendance of excited, qualified engineers who were eager to learn.''
``At Consolidated Telephone Co., all of our servers run on Red Hat Linux. I took Red Hat's RHCE to learn more about Linux,'' said Paul Davis, manager of Internet activities for Consolidated Telephone Co. and RHCE graduate. ``My instructor for Red Hat's RHCE was outstanding. He demonstrated excellent knowledge of the material, along with the ability to convey his knowledge to his students. I would love to learn more about Linux, and wish the class lasted longer than a week.''
About the Red Hat Certified Engineer Programme
Taught by RHCE-trained engineers with considerable Internetworking experience, Red Hat's certification program offers more than traditional, multiple-choice written exams and ``paper certifications.'' RHCE Certification requires success on performance-based practical exams, in which users actually demonstrate the ability to: install and configure Red Hat Linux, set up common network (IP) services, and perform essential administration, diagnostic tests and troubleshooting, among other Internetworking and systems administration tasks. Red Hat courses are available for the entire RHCE Certification track, at levels appropriate for both beginners and networking professionals looking to migrate to open source solutions and build or expand their experience with Linux-based operating systems. Red Hat Services and select training partners, including Global Knowledge and IBM Global Services, administer the popular Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) course series.
According to IDC, IBM Global Services is the world's largest training provider. The first courses, including the RHCE exam, will be available at IBM Training Centers starting in the second quarter of 2000. Information on RHCE courses is posted at https://redhat-techworld.com/training, http://db.globalknowledge.com/catalog/catcourse.asp?cat=11
and http://www.ibm.com/services/learning/spotlight/linux.html.
Open Source Momentum
International Data Corp. (IDC) research states that paid Linux shipments grew faster than any other server operating system over the past two years, and their preliminary figures for 1999 show Linux shipments hold 24.6 percent of the server operating system market, up from 15.8 in 1998. IDC also states that Red Hat Linux is by far the most popular distribution, preferred by 68.7 percent of U.S. Linux users.
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 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 and available from the website, www.europe.redhat.com/shop.
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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