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Red Hat Inc., the leader in open source Internet infrastructure solutions, announced today the IA-64 JumpStart Programme, which provides all the software, tools, support and training needed for independent software and hardware vendors (ISVs and IHVs) to quickly develop solutions for Red Hat Linux on Intelâ's new ItaniumÔ IA-64 architecture.
Programme members receive a wide range of free services and can purchase additional levels of support and training from Red Hat--often at a significant discount. Avanti, Rational, Sendmail, Steeleye, Tibco and Unify are among the leading software vendors who have already joined the programme to leverage Red Hat's unmatched open source development and support expertise.
``The JumpStart Programme continues Red Hat's commitment to delivering everything needed to quickly and easily embrace Red Hat Linux and other open source solutions in the next generation of computing,'' said Michael Tiemann, chief technical officer at Red Hat, Inc.
In May, Red Hat released an early beta version of the Red Hat source code for the Itanium processor platform. The early code release included the Red Hat/Cygnus compiler and tool kit and is based on the tools and kernel developed by the IA-64 Linux Project, formerly known as the Trillian project.
``The JumpStart Programme reflects Red Hat's commitment to its customers to deliver high-end performance and stability of the IA-64 platform for their Internet infrastructure solutions,'' said Victor Krutul, manager, OS Programmes, Intel Corp. ``Red Hat's release of pre-production tools and software and the new JumpStart programme exemplifies the industry-wide support to help accelerate the development of ItaniumÔ processor-based server and workstation applications.''
The JumpStart Program delivers a wide range of solutions designed for ISVs and IHVs working with Intel's Pre-silicon Software Development Environment (SoftSDV) or independently. It has different levels and costs depending on the level of support desired, and it can provide:
-Netfarm, an innovative hosting service that lets developers access pre-production Intel IA-64 hardware over the Internet
-Free Web-based support, with additional support packs at a significant discount
-One day of introductory training for installing, configuring and porting
-Red Hat hardware and software certification
-Priority notification of software patches and updates and access to e-knowledge bases, FAQs and 90-day priority ftp for bug fixes and downloads
-Advanced developer support and additional engineering services to help port applications
-Partner marketing benefits, such as inclusion in Red Hat white papers, case studies, direct mail campaigns and listings in solution guides and the IA-64 section of redhat.com's marketplace.
The IA-64 Netfarm is part of the Red Hat IA-64 JumpStart Programme. It is designed to enable Linux-based application development for high-performance 64-bit IA-64 systems. Whether you're porting existing applications from other operating systems, migrating applications from the Intel 32-bit architecture to create new applications or develop hardware that is optimized on Linux for IA-64, the Red Hat IA-64 Netfarm offers an opportunity to develop on a future platform today.
For more information on the IA-64 Netfarm, please see hardware.redhat.com/ia64 For more information on Red Hat's JumpStart Programme, please see www.redhat.com/services/IA64/Jumpstart/
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 percent of Linux vendor market share and that Red Hat Linux is by far the most popular distribution, preferred by 68.7 percent of U.S. Linux users.
Research firm Netcraft, Inc. (www.netcraft.com), states that as of May 2000, 30 percent 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 percent 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, 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.
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