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Red Hat, Inc, the leader in open source Internet infrastructure solutions, today announced Red Hat Linux 6.2 was named ``Editor's Choice - First Place'' for server distribution in the September 2000 issue of Linux Magazine and ``Best Distribution'' for the third straight year at the recent LinuxWorld Conference & Expo in San Jose, Calif.
``Once again, users and the leading, independent Linux publication have validated Red Hat's tremendous market and technical lead in powerful Internet server solutions,'' said Michael Tiemann, CTO of Red Hat. ``Recognition as the best server distribution affirms Red Hat's position as the leader and top provider of software and services that provide the backbone for today's Internet economy.''
Editors from Linux Magazine based their choice for best server distribution on Red Hat's ability to ``remain true to the open source model.'' According to the editors, Red Hat has ``features that make it a Sys Admin's favorite, including Heartbeat high availability software and enhanced RAID support. Red Hat is also the driving force behind RPMs, the most popular packaging format for Linux.''
Attendees of the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo voted for the ``Best Distribution'' award in a kiosk voting station on the show floor.
Continues Unmatched Praise for Red Hat
Red Hat, Inc. continues to receive substantial industry praise. Recent praise includes:
· InfoWorld's Product of the Year (four years in a row)
· Network Magazine's Product of the Year
· Computer Reseller News Editors' Choice
· InternetWeek's InternetWeek Approved Award
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 holds 50.2 per cent of Linux vendor market share and that Red Hat Linux is by far the most popular distribution, preferred by 68.7 per cent of U.S. Linux users.
Research firm Netcraft, Inc. (www.netcraft.com), states that as of May 2000, 30 per cent of all public Web sites run on Linux-based operating systems, making Linux the most popular choice for deploying public Web sites. IDC research shows 40 per cent of all spending on Linux servers is for Internet related applications, firmly entrenching Linux servers in the Internet infrastructure.
Finally, IDC predicts that by 2002, there will be more than 55 million handheld and notebook-style information appliance devices and that by 2005, shipments of these appliances will exceed shipments of PCs.
Red Hat's numerous alliances with industry leaders and the demand for Linux-based applications has created open source support from many of the industry's leading software and hardware manufacturers, including Dell, Compaq, Computer Associates, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Intel, Netscape, Novell, Oracle and SAP.
About Red Hat
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 from 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 Favourite'. 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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