From Early Enterprise Linux Years to the Open Source Compute Platform
of Choice for Today and Tomorrow's Physical, Virtual, and Cloud IT
Environments
RALEIGH, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source
solutions, today celebrates the 10th anniversary of its
flagship solution, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, which has transformed the
deployment of business-critical applications for IT organizations around
the globe. With the introduction of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux
operating system in May 2002, Red Hat dramatically changed the software
industry with the first-ever open source software subscription business,
spurring the adoption of Linux across the enterprise.
Continuously bringing increased levels of IT infrastructure efficiency,
Red Hat Enterprise Linux provides solutions to real-world challenges for
the most demanding enterprise customers. From the financial sector to
government, telecommunications to media, logistics to retail, Red Hat
Enterprise Linux is relied upon to power many of the heaviest IT
workloads in business securely and reliably.
"Red Hat is thankful to the worldwide Linux community and all our
partners, and is proud to recognize the achievements we've made with Red
Hat Enterprise Linux," said Paul Cormier, president of products and
technologies at Red Hat. "Building on the last decade, today Red Hat
enables the most advanced IT environments in organizations that offer
products and services that truly enhance the way we work and live. Red
Hat Enterprise Linux is a great example of making disruptive technology
an industry standard."
Key milestones of Red Hat Enterprise Linux include:
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Launching the Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) program in 1997, a
valuable offering for training IT staff on Linux, that helped spread
the use of open source in businesses by giving Red Hat customers
access to a growing pool of resources with proven skills;
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Shifted business focus to the enterprise IT user by shipping an
enterprise-grade Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system in May 2002;
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Introduction of the first successful open source software subscription
business model focusing on reliability and stability, attracting
leading hardware and software partners to port to Red Hat Enterprise
Linux;
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Merged Red Hat Linux and the Fedora Linux Project to create the Fedora
Project, a community collaboration of Red Hat employees and volunteers
and a powerful incubator of open source technologies for Red Hat
Enterprise Linux;
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Development of a 2-20X price/performance increase for enterprise
customers with significant cost savings, record-setting performance
benchmarks, usage in high-performing super-computers, and integration
of security and virtualization technologies; and
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Established Red Hat Enterprise Linux as the premier open source
operating system for software and hardware certification and support
with more than 9,000 applications and 1,400 ISVs and more than 3,000
certified hardware platforms today, ranging from servers and
workstations to storage and mainframes certified for Red Hat
Enterprise Linux.
"Red Hat broke new ground not only for its own benefit, but for a
multitude of other business entities that offer commercial support for
open source-based products," said Al Gillen, program VP, System
Software, IDC. "Try and imagine a world today if Red Hat had not
successfully introduced the concept of enterprise-class
subscription-based support for an open source product."
Through its community-powered innovation and partner ecosystem strength,
Red Hat connects with technology leaders to bring proven,
high-performing Linux solutions to our joint customers.
"The growth of cloud computing requires greater choice and innovation
for the datacenter," said Doug Fisher, vice president of the Systems
Software Division at Intel. "To help meet these needs, Intel and Red Hat
have collaborated for years on Linux and open virtualization, bringing
innovative datacenter technologies to market. Intel congratulates Red
Hat on the tenth anniversary of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. We look
forward to our continuing collaboration and innovation in key areas such
as open, trusted, and federated clouds, as well as mission-critical
platforms based on open source software and Intel Architecture."
"For more than 10 years, Dell and Red Hat have helped bring open source
standards and solutions to the data center," said Gerry Hackett, vice
president, Server Platform and Engineering, Dell. "We congratulate Red
Hat on 10 years of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and we look forward to
continuing to provide customers with innovative joint solutions that
lower total cost of ownership and increase return on investment."
"Red Hat changed the way customers purchase software, pioneering
community-driven product development and offering an open source
subscription model," said Doug Oathout, vice president, Alliances and
Channel Partner Marketing, Enterprise Group, HP. "Our most recent
collaboration, Red Hat Enterprise Linux on HP ProLiant Gen8, provides
unparalleled levels of scalability and performance, and showcases our
commitment to innovation and the open-source ecosystem."
"Red Hat's flagship operating system has helped change market dynamics
and proved the feasibility of open-source platforms for enterprise
applications," said Helge Deller, head of SAP LinuxLabs, SAP AG. "SAP's
goal is to make businesses run better. A key part of that goal includes
offering flexible infrastructure choices to meet customers' needs. This
enables customers to get the most value out of their business
applications, which are key drivers for growth and profit. SAP has
always been a technology leader, and was the first to offer software
that ran mission-critical ERP operations on Linux. In partnership with
Red Hat, we help customers identify where they can leverage the power of
open-source solutions reliably to drive down costs and improve
operational efficiency."
Future Direction
CIOs for a broad spectrum of organizations depend on Red Hat Enterprise
Linux as a foundation for their enterprise architecture capable of
meeting their needs now and in the future. Red Hat Enterprise Linux
powers many of the world's largest public and private cloud, and is the
foundation on which many leading new breed of cloud and
Software-as-a-Service applications are built and run.
Red Hat's strategic plans for Red Hat Enterprise Linux include:
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continuing to deliver a highly reliable, feature-rich and
cost-effective operating system infrastructure;
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forming the basis of open hybrid clouds, delivering a consistent
environment allowing applications to migrate easily between on-premise
and public cloud environments with a consistent development and
management platform, with industry-leading multi-tenacy, resource
management, and Quality-of-Service management capabilities; and
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expanding the use of Linux for many types of workloads — legacy and
next-generation, inside and outside the enterprise, on-premise and
hybrid — to accommodate the explosive workload demands resulting from
social, big data, and mobile applications.
For more information on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and future strategic
direction, join Red Hat executives for a virtual press conference
webcast at 12 noon ET on May 15. The webcast will also be available for
replay. To register for the live broadcast or to access the replay,
visit here.
Additional Resources
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S&P 500 company, is headquartered in Raleigh, NC with more than 70
offices spanning the globe. Red Hat provides high-quality, affordable
technology with its operating system platform, Red Hat Enterprise Linux,
together with cloud, virtualization, management, storage and
service-oriented architecture (SOA) solutions, including Red Hat
Enterprise Virtualization and JBoss Enterprise Middleware. Red Hat also
offers support, training and consulting services to its customers
worldwide. Learn more: http://www.redhat.com.
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