Red Hat initiates long-term plan for customer value

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Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced the availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.  Created in close collaboration with customers, Enterprise Linux 5 is the cornerstone of a company-wide push to deliver additional value to customers throughout their experience with Red Hat.  Red Hat is taking the open source collaborative principles that customers are using today to drive down software acquisition and management costs and applying them to other parts of the business,  including services, systems management and partnerships.

 

"We have been developing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 for two years with our customers and partners driving the agenda.  Their pain points were clear: they were unable to consume all of the technology being sold to them, and it was was not solving their business problems effectively.  Our resolve has been and will always be that we will deliver software that solves real business needs," said Paul Cormier, Executive Vice President of Engineering at Red Hat.  "Our announcements today demonstrate how we apply this philosophy to all parts of our business."

 

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Red Hat Enterprise Linux is the cornerstone of the Company's Open Source Architecture.  Initially launched in 2002, Red Hat Enterprise Linux can be found in the majority of Fortune 500 environments, and is renowned for performance, value and reliability.  Customers are now seeking to deploy open source technology in increasingly complex workloads, using the latest in open source technology but with the proven stability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

 

In response, Red Hat has worked with them to create Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. Today Red Hat  is announcing the availability of  the Advanced Platform, for mission-critical server deployments, as well as an updated Enterprise Desktop for user productivity.  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Advanced Platform is the world's most compelling operating environment. Once again, Red Hat is redefining what "value" means in the IT industry. With Advanced Platform, customers are able to greatly reduce the cost and complexity of purchasing, integrating and managing separate virtualization, storage management and high availability software.  Ultimately, Advanced Platform allows customers to shift their investment away from costly infrastructure and back into their business.

 

"AMD and Red Hat have been leading the transition from 32-bit to 64-bit computing for years and with the AMD64 processor platform, our joint customers have come to depend on AMD and Red Hat to deliver efficient, high performing and stable solutions," said Terri Hall, vice president, Software Solutions and Alliances, AMD.  "At AMD, we've long been focused on developing technology that enables virtualization on the AMD64 platform and we've been excited to work closely with Red Hat to help customers deploy powerful and secure virtualization technologies based on a common and consistent architecture.  Together, hardware-assisted AMD Virtualization technology and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, will help customers achieve higher levels of efficiency and utilization as they deploy their virtualization strategies."

 

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 significantly extends the attributes for which the product is renowned. Enhancements include additional performance, scalability and security features, extensive new hardware support, expanded development environment and toolset, improved interoperability Microsoft® Windows® and Unix.

 

"By closely collaborating since the early stages, Intel and Red Hat have innovated and accelerated new technologies such as virtualization," said Doug Fisher, Vice President and General Manager of Intel's Software and Solutions Group. "The combination of leading edge Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® processor-based platforms and Red hat Enterprise Linux 5 gives our customers impressive performance, power savings and reliability."

  

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