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learndirect provides delivers online education, training, and advice for two million users, facilitating over 50,000 sessions and 10,000 new course enrolments per week. With systems needing to be available 24 hours per day, 365 days per week, there was no room for outages or failure. A reliable, high performance system was needed to replace learndirect's Visual Basic-based legacy system, which was outdated and costly to support. A requirement to work with the source code and to adopt the most cost effective solution led learndirect to open source solutions from Red Hat.

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Education

Yuba County School System Increases Efficiency

Solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Yuba County Unified School District (YCUSD) in northern California migrated from a mainframe environment to one built around Red Hat Enterprise Linux and other open source solutions. As a result, they've increased efficiency and reliability, all while saving money.
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University of Stirling Chooses Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Applications and Intel Itanium 2-based Server

Solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
With over 9000 students and 2000 staff member, human resources and payroll are critical systems at Stirling University. When its systems began to lag, it turned to Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Intel Itanium 2- based systems. Not only did Stirling University more than triple its performance, it also cut costs by 50%.
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learndirect Teaches the Benefits of Open Source With Red Hat

learndirect provides delivers online education, training, and advice for two million users, facilitating over 50,000 sessions and 10,000 new course enrolments per week. With systems needing to be available 24 hours per day, 365 days per week, there was no room for outages or failure. A reliable, high performance system was needed to replace learndirect's Visual Basic-based legacy system, which was outdated and costly to support. A requirement to work with the source code and to adopt the most cost effective solution led learndirect to open source solutions from Red Hat.
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Public Sector

Informatikzentrum Niedersachsen (IZN)

Solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Faced with obsolete technology and a decentralized network, IZN migrated the Lower Saxony Police Department's critical IT systems to Red Hat Enterprise Linux and HP Integrity servers, based on 64-bit technology. The result is a low-cost, high-performance, centralized architecture easily managed with Red Hat Network Satellite Server.
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City of Bloomington, Indiana

Solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
For the City of Bloomington, Indiana (pop 70,000), a declining budget offered a big opportunity. Their aging Unix infrastructure was experiencing significant performance problems along with increasing maintenance costs. When budget cuts were delivered, they had to find another solution. By migrating to Red Hat Enterprise Linux, the City increased performance and flexibility in their most mission-critical systems while chalking up significant savings.
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Vanderbilt University

Solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Academic Edition, Red Hat Network, and Red Hat Training
Consistently ranked as a top U.S university, Vanderbilt takes as much pride in it's technology and research programs as in its renowned medical center. Maintaining their role as a technology leader permeates every decision, so when data storage needs began multiplying by 1000% per year and their Unix infrastructure clearly couldn't keep up, Vanderbilt looked at Linux. After migrating to Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Vanderbilt reports lower TCO in three areas: hardware acquisition, software licensing, and system administration.
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City of Chicago

Solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
One of the most well known cities in the United States, Chicago prides itself on finding a better way to do things~Wfrom strengthening public education to inventing Cracker Jacks, lowering crime to building the first skyscraper. In the same spirit, this year they've begun migrating their IT systems to Red Hat Enterprise Linux to improve performance and save costs.
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County Government Regains Control of IT Infrastructure by Migrating From Windows to Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Network
When Pottawattamie County migrated mission-critical tasks from Microsoft Windows to Red Hat Enterprise Linux, they saw increased reliability and control at a significantly lower cost. "From a technical standpoint, we've found that Red Hat Enteprise Linux and other open source solutions could almost always meet the business needs and performance of proprietary alternatives," said Thomas Broniecki, Director of IT.
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U.S. Army Realizes Better Price/Performance by Migrating to Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Managing and retrieving personnel records for 1.2 million U.S. Army soldiers requires an enterprise solution that delivers quick and reliable access to those records. Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS meets those requirements, and soldiers stationed around the globe can now access their records reliably and securely anytime, any place.
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Law—and Order

Solution: Red Hat Linux
New Jersey State Police keep the wheels of law enforcement turning with Red Hat Linux and Oracle, using Red Hat Linux to power essential day-to-day functions and helps keep costs under control.
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Services

Baylis Logistics Drops Unix® and Windows® to Increase Productivity With Red Hat Thin Client Architecture

Solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
UK-based Baylis Logistics is an established third-party distribution company operating a nationwide network of seven depots covering in total just under one million square feet of storage space. Baylis lorries move food, liquor, and consumable goods to supermarkets across the country.
Baylis Logistics' legacy IT environment was based on a number of discrete networks at each depot location, with hardware and software duplicated across the seven warehouse facilities. At each depot, operations staff used Windows PCs to access browser-based and telnet applications. When its aging Microsoft Windows and SCO Unix-based IT infrastructure needed replacing, Baylis Logistics turned to LinuxIT and Red Hat to implement a new infrastructure based on a thin client architecture running Red Hat Enterprise Linux and centrally managed by Baylis Logistics' own IT support team.
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Randstad Creates Centralized Architecture With Help from Red Hat

Solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS
With more than 2,000 offices and 12,000 employees across the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Poland, and the US, Randstad Holding is one of the largest temporary and contract staffing companies in the world. Randstad needed to centralize and consolidate a disparate administrative as well as ensure system stability and flexibility. Randstad and Red Hat worked together to implement a solution in an "incredibly short" time frame, according to Hidde Fennema, ICT project manager at Randstad.
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Swedish Construction Company Skanska Chooses Red Hat Enterprise Linux

A world leader in the construction industry, Skanska aims to provide lower costs, higher quality, and world-class customer satisfaction. Efficient, reliable technology plays a major role in achieving this goal, so when it was time to upgrade, Skanska chose to migrate from Sun Solaris to Red Hat Enterprise Linux on Dell for Oracle11i and Oracle10g RAC.
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Travel Booking Website Chooses Red Hat Enterprise Linux Over Microsoft

Solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS, Oracle10g Standard Edition, Java 1.5, AMD Opteron, Red Hat Network
Wotif.com, founded in 2000, is Australia's leading last-minute accommodations website and the global specialist in its field. In 2002, Wotif.com was essentially a Microsoft shop. Wotif.com was having enormous issues with performance, scalability, and system availability because of 80-100% yearly growth. They decided that Wotif.com's overall architecture needed a solution that was scalable, open source, and UNIX-like. Buy-in and support from tier-one vendors like Oracle was also essential. The platform that best met these needs was Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
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Red Hat Offers Gruner + Jahr Higher Performance At Lower Cost

Solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SAP, Dell
Gruner + Jahr is faced with the challenge of achieving greater performance with fewer resources. Attracted by the low-cost and high- performance of Linux, they have migrated numerous business-critical applications away from UNIX and Windows NT to Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
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LVM Chooses Red Hat Solutions As Strategic Platform for the Future

LVM is a nationwide insurance company, operating in the private sector and represented by 2,100 agencies throughout Germany. After using an in-house Linux solution for years, they needed an enterprise Linux OS that could provide low total cost of ownership, ease of management, stability, security, reliability, and flexibility. Their solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux on their servers and Red Hat Desktop on their desktops.
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Leading French Retailer Chooses Red Hat for Critical Sales and Customer Service System

Solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Network Satellite Red Hat Professional Services
Lapeyre is a leading manufacturer and distributor of home improvement products in Europe. As they prepared to upgrade their critical sales and services application to the Oracle9i platform, they needed an operating platform that ensured stability, availability, and full compatibility with their existing environment. So they migrated to Red Hat Enteprise Linux combined with Red Hat Network Satelite Server.
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Auto Trade Center Boosts Sales With Red Hat, Oracle, and HP

Solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS
As a leading internet-based automotive company, Auto Trade Center knows that their competitive edge depends on technology--their e-commerce site must be reliable, stable, and responsive with at least 99.99% availability. Red Hat Enterprise Linux with Oracle9i RAC on HP ProLiant servers exceeds their needs. Now Auto Trade Center customers can sell their vehicles online in 1/5 the time it would take via the typical offline process. The company has seen a big boost in revenue, which allows them to pass savings onto their customers.
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First Trust

Solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
As one of the largest independent trust companies for self-directed retirement plans, First Trust Corporation handles millions of dollars per day, a number that continues to increase. A new transaction system built on HP's Itanium 2-based servers, Oracle9i RAC, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux resulted in a threefold perfomance improvement to accomodate for their rapid growth.

Automobile giant Renault deploys Red Hat Enterprise Linux with Rackspace Managed Hosting for a more dependable on-line customer interface.

Solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
French automobile manufacturer Renault is the most popular vehicle brand in Europe and is among the top three in the United Kingdom. Offering distinctive, clever design and value for money, its vehicles are considered among the safest in the world. Renault relies on websites strategically tailored for each market as a primary information source for customers. The reconfiguration of the company’s UK micro sites to a managed web hosting solution running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux maximizes commercial gain by ensuring the consistent availability of online information for existing and future customers.
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SITEL Calls on Red Hat to Increase Performance and Stability

Solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
With over 70 call centers in over 20 countries, SITEL provides global call center and customer support services to major corporations around the world. When it came time to rethink its IT infrastructure, SITEL chose Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS running on Dell to build out databases and applications in its geographically remote call centers. The Result: Stability and reliability necessary for remote sites.
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Finding Your Way on the Web

Solution: Red Hat Linux
Google, Mountain View, CA USA

Google runs the world's largest search engine, handling more than 100 million searches per day. And it's powered by one of the world's largest server farms, comprised of 8,000 Red Hat Linux servers.
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Powers Weather Services for 2006 Winter Olympics

Solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Cluster Suite, Red Hat Application Server, Red Hat Network
Arpa Piemonte, Italy's Environmental Protection Agency for the Piedmont region, will provide the weather service to the 2006 Winter Olympic Games in Turin, Italy. The system configuration being used is a reliability cluster based on two servers running Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES 3, Red Hat Cluster Suite, and Red Hat Application Server.
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At the Munich Trade Fair: Red Hat Global File System Provides a Modern Cluster Solution With Virtualized Storage

Solution: Red Hat GFS
Messe Munchen International (Munich International Trade Fair--MMI), which organizes about 40 trade fairs for capital goods, consumer goods, and new technologies is one of the world's leading trade fair companies. Over 30,000 exhibitors representing more than 90 countries and two million visitors from about 180 countries take part in the events in Munich every year. With five subsidiary companies abroad, global trade fairs and 75 foreign branches dealing with 89 countries, MMI has a very strong worldwide network.
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UAE'S Leading Construction Company Migrates to Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Arabtec Construction LLC (Arabtec) is the leading construction company in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Established in 1975, the company has undertaken a substantial program of construction projects, including high rise developments, hotel interiors, residential complexes, office blocks, airport developments, offshore oil and gas installations, cinemas, and entertainment facilities. The construction company's current projects include the Dubai Tower (the tallest tower in the world), The Dubai International Finance Centre, and the Conference Palace in Abu Dhabi.
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Consumer

Patrick Corporation

Solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 3
One of Australia's largest transportation companies, Patrick Corporation has utilized Red Hat Enterprise Linux to increase efficiency and lower costs.
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Kingfisher

Solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
With 331 B&Q; stores and brands such as Trade Depot and Screwfix Direct in the UK, 102 Castorama and 73 Brico Dépôt stores in France, 26 Castorama stores in Italy, 30 in Poland, 7 Brico Dépôt stores in Spain, and two in Russia, the British Kingfisher Group is the European leader in the home improvement and DIY market. The Kingfisher Group is also present in Turkey with the Koçta stores and in Asia with B&Q; China, B&Q; Taiwan and B&Q; Korea, and has a major stake in Hornbach, the German leader in DIY Retail. The Kingfisher Group is the world's third-largest retailer in the DIY sector.
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Corporate Express

Solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Ret Hat Network Satellite
Corporate Express offers highly specialised expertise and tailored advice to streamline procurement needs for around 110,000 active business customers. It caters for every aspect of a business with IT solutions, print services, promotional marketing, business furniture, facilities supplies, catering and kitchen supplies and office essentials.
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Technology

Secure-24 Brings High Securtiy and Performance to Hosting Customers

Solution: Red Hat® Enterprise Linux, Red Hat GFS, MySQL and Red Hat Network
Secure-24 provides information security and managed hosting solutions for companies who need a reliable, high-quality hosting alternative to in-house solutions. They focus on serving security-conscious, data-driven companies, such as financial institutions, healthcare, tier I and II automotive suppliers, as well as OEMs. High performance and high availability are paramount to the success of Secure-24. This is why they chose Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat GFS on Dell servers with Intel 64-bit processors when they began building out their IT infrastructure.
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ASP4all

Solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Network Satellite Server, Red Hat Technical Account Manager
With two highly resilient A-class datacenters in Amsterdam, ASP4All a variety of hosting services to companies and governments across the Netherlands. They've chosen Red Hat Enterprise Linux with Red Hat Network Satellite Server as their Linux standard, providing stability, security, and high-availability for their customers.
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Host Europe Managed Hosting: No Interruptions Thanks to Red Hat

Solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Cluster Suite, Red Hat support services
Host Europe develops and markets Internet services for private and commercial customers in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. The company provides customers with a fail-safe infrastructure, a comprehensive range of scalable and high-quality Internet services, as well as customer-focused support. In order to make this range of services available, Host Europe focuses on partnerships with experienced technology companies. Over 25% of companies quoted on the German stock exchange, DAX, use services provided by Host Europe.
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COIG Selects Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
COIG is a major outsourcing company and independent software vendor (ISV) in Poland, responsible for managing several major IT contracts. Among these contracts, COIG maintains the IT infrastructure for Poland's entire coal mine network. An outdated and disjointed IT infrastructure created performance and maintenance issues for Polish coal mines. COIG needed to renew the aging IT infrastructure based on SCO Unix across 50 remote locations, while increasing functionality and reducing maintenance downtime. After looking at all the major Linux distributions and holding an intensive evaluation session, COIG opted for Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
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Swisscom IT Services

Solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 with virtualization, Red Hat Cluster Suite, Red Hat Satellite Server, JBoss Application Server, IBM Blade servers
Swisscom IT Services, a strategic subsidiary of the Swisscom Group, the largest Swiss telecommunications provider, needed to create a standardized and stable operating system environment to host outsourced services for its customers. The company also wanted to simplify the provisioning and allocation of new servers by creating an automated staging infrastructure. Under the name "Simply Managed Linux" (SIMLUX), Swisscom decided to work with Red Hat to develop a highly flexible and effective infrastructure for its data centres.
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Energy, Oil, and Gas

Energy for a New Tomorrow

Solution: Red Hat Linux
Amerada Hess Corporation, Houston, TX, USA

A major energy company uses Red Hat Linux to handle billions of computations in its three-dimensional geophysical modeling technology as it searches for new crude oil resources.
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Statoil Migrates From UNIX and Saves 50%

Solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Technical Account Manager
Summary: As an early adopter of Linux for enterprise applications, Statoil has learned many lessons and seen great benefits. As one of the world's largest operators for offshore oil and gas activities, Statoil realized in the late 1990's that they needed to standardize their IT infrastructure. Since then, they've migrated from seven Unix variants to Red Hat Enterprise Linux. In the process, they've experienced a 50% cost savings, increased performance, and built the largest super-computer in Norway.
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Gas Natural: Leading Natural Gas Distributor Achieves Impressive Performance Increase With Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Oracle 9i RAC, SAP BW, SAP SEM
There are now a variety of systems within The Gas Natural Group running on Enterprise Linux, including one of the most business critical systems: a corporate data warehouse powered by Oracle® Database 9i RAC and SAP Business Information Warehouse (BW), and another system running SAP Strategic Enterprise Management (SEM). The overall TCO (total cost of ownership) of their IT infrastructure has been reduced by a 1:4 factor and performance gains in their data warehouse have been as high as 5,214% in some queries.
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Manufacturing

Leading French Retailer Chooses Red Hat for Critical Sales and Customer Service System

Solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Network Satellite Server, Red Hat Professional Services
Lapeyre is a leading manufacturer and distributor of home improvement products in Europe. As they prepared to upgrade their critical sales and services application to the Oracle9i platform, they needed an operating platform that ensured stability, availability, and full compatibility with their existing environment. So they migrated to Red Hat Enteprise Linux combined with Red Hat Network Satelite Server.
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Lithonia Lighting: Red Hat, Dell, Oracle Solution Halves Batch Processing for ERP Applications

Solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Lithonia Lighting, one of the largest industrial and commercial lighting manufacturers in the world, migrated from single, processor-based database servers to clustered servers running Oracle® 9i RAC on Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS. The result: Low costs and improved productivity.
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Kenwood Makes Operations Sing With Red Hat Linux

Solution: Red Hat Linux
Kenwood Americas Corporation, Long Beach, CA, USA

When Kenwood Americas overhauled its aging network and operating system, it found the stability and reliability of Red Hat Linux.
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Juan Quesada, RHCE

When Juan Quesada's company, a leading home builder, began considering Linux in 2001, he turned to Red Hat for instructor-led training. Early the following year Juan became a Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) and is now the Linux "go to guy." "Experience is important," Juan notes, "but the RHCE proved to my company that I had the knowledge needed to carry out the Linux deployment with confidence and within time constraints."
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Fiat Auto Drives Distribution Innovation

Solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS
Faced with commodity-style competitors, Fiat Auto needed a way to distinuish it's brand above and beyond quality cars. They instituted Fiat Link, a three-tiersales support and customer relationship management (CRM) tool based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Oracle9i RAC on HP Integrity Servers with 64-bit Intel Itanium 2 processors. Now Fiat dealers have instant access to real-time CRM, dealer,and vehicle information, creating a streamlined buying process while lowering the cost of each sale. Fiat Link will be in use across 5,800 retailers in 17 countries by 2005.
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Red Hat Helps Denkavit With Web Applications

Solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Denkavit's primary objective was to build a standardized, easy-to-manage system that maintained all current functionality, safeguarded the continuity of all processes, and ensured a flexible future-proof IT environment. The company's calculations also show that its Red Hat Enterprise Linux solution will-overall-be less expensive by a factor of four than some of the other solutions that were under consideration.
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Government

City of Vienna

Solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Red Hat Linux has a strong reputation within Magisterial Department 14 in the city of Vienna. In many ways, its use of open source is exemplary of other public institutions and enterprises. From the early 1990s, the city of Vienna has been running Linux servers. At the start, these were mainly systems with FreeBSD. However, as the City of Vienna looked to the future and the migration of mission-critical systems to Linux, a reliable Linux platform, developed and supported by a professional vendor, was needed.
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Marsala Town Council In Italy Offers Advanced Services to Its Citizens With Red Hat Solutions

Solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
The municipality of Marsala in Italy is responsible for 85,000 citizens and operates with about 1,000 employees. To simplify administration procedures, the citizens of the town are offered several free online services - those relating to the registry office, town planning, and electoral services.
The Marsala Town Council created its first computer-based infrastructure in 1981 and has since modified its IT structure several times. With increasing user numbers and the need for advanced resources, it looked for a solution to help control costs related to upgrading and maintenance without reducing the number of services available to its citizens. The Marsala Town Council saw significant cost reductions after migrating to Red Hat solutions. Its IT infrastructure experienced improved service performance levels too. Systems security and reliability have significantly increased with the adoption of Red Hat.
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Veneto Agency for Agriculture Payments

Solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
AVEPA, the Veneto Agency for Agriculture Payments, began moving their claims–handling process to an online solution in 2002. Demand for the system grew more than exponentially, and AVEPA required a new IT system that could handle the current demand, and would be extensible enough to accommodate future increase—while meeting strict requirements for security and reliability. With the deployment of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, AVEPA realized immense improvements in reliability and stability, flexibility for future expansion, and has enjoyed open source's inherent cost–savings and value.
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ISTAT Chooses Reliable and Efficient Solutions From Red Hat

Solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Istituto Nazionale di Statistica is a public research body founded in 1926 and is the main producer of official statistics used by citizens and public sector decision makers. In 2003, ISTAT initiated a project to evaluate the pros and cons of migrating to Linux. This project also sought to consolidate and integrate existing applications and improve the capacity of processing and disk space. This was a positive experience that involved costs in human resources training and a change in outlook regarding a new way of working and interacting with the open source community. The project was successfully completed in a matter of months and represented the turning point initiating the change in ISTAT’s entire architecture.
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Province of Gelderland

Solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
The Province of Gelderland is a Dutch governmental body that coordinates policy implementation by local councils, water boards, and other agencies.
All IT facilities for the Province's staff are accommodated in its DS/IT department with a staff of 50.
As with other Dutch government organizations, the Province of Gelderland is required to find cost-effective solutions and provide in-house IT facility services at market-standard rates.
The Province also needed to migrate a heterogeneous infrastructure based on Unix and MPE/iX to a standardized environment while maintaining or improving the functionality and level of its IT performance.
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SMHI Selects Red Hat for Reduced Cost, Enhanced Security, and More Efficient Operation

Solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
SMHI is Sweden's meteorological and hydrological institute and the country's expert authority on meteorology, hydrology, and oceanography, as well as a resource for many types of environmental work. Many public and private companies rely on SMHI to deliver reliable information on time.
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Financial

International Bank of Azerbaijan Chooses Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Its Mail and Internet Server

Solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
The International Bank of Azerbaijan is Azerbaijan's leading financial institution. When they needed to upgrade their email and Internet servers, they chose Red Hat Enterprise Linux because of its reliability, security, and cost.
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Leading Italian Bank Chooses Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat Desktop

Solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
The Banche Popolari Unite Group (BPU) is the seventh largest banking group in Italy and the largest co-operative credit bank. They chose Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat Desktop because they received a hands-on approach from Red Hat and guaranteed reliability, robustness, and efficiency from Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat Desktop.
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PLUS Finanzservice GmbH

PLUS Finanzservice GmbH in Wiesbaden, Germany is a subsidiary of Scandinavian giants IKEA and IKANO. The IT core of PLUS Finanzservice is the Card Management System. Their new card management cluster solution on Red Hat Enterprise Linux is highly fail-safe, yields 30% cost reduction, and give PLUS Finanzservice hardware-independence.
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Central Bank of India Migrates to Linux, Expects to Save $1 Million In Two Years

When regulations mandated that Indian banks be fully computerized by December 2004, Central Bank of India knew they must find a solution optimized for scalability and focused on ease of support and maintenance. After some testing, Linux was clearly the best choice, with Red Hat as the partner. CBI has now implemented the Red Hat solution across 1,115 branches, with 1,770 additional branches planning to deploy Linux in 2004.
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SNS Bank

Solution: JBoss Application Server
SNS Bank was established in 1817 and is one of the top five banks in the Netherlands with over 3,300 employees in 150 offices. It’s a part of SNS REAAL, a Dutch service pro- vider specialising in insurance and banking, and provides consultation for private and business customers looking for smart solutions to broaden their financial possibilities.
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