Red Hat Partner Community Offers Customers More Choice for Building Open Source Architectures
Expanded OEM and Reseller Enablement, and New Hosting and Runtime Programs Bring More Options and Flexibility to a Broader Range of Customers
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Marc Fleury, founder and former CEO of JBoss and now Senior Vice President and General Manager of the JBoss division of Red Hat, "Joining forces with Red Hat makes absolute sense for JBoss employees, customers, partners and the community as a whole. We share a common passion for innovation, technology and open source. Red Hat will give JBoss a platform to grow, so we can both continue to deliver exceptional open source products, services and customer value. leading solutions."
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RALEIGH, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 27, 2004-- Red Hat, Inc. (NASDAQ: RHAT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions to the enterprise, today added new programs to Red Hat's already broad portfolio of partner programs. The Red Hat Partner Community is designed to encourage the combination of open source and traditional technologies into the fabric of enterprise computing to provide technology solutions that give customers more choice.
About Red Hat, Inc. Red Hat, the world's leading open source and Linux provider, is headquartered in Raleigh, NC with satellite offices spanning the globe. The most trusted name in open source, level IT executives have ranked Red Hat as the industry's most valued vendor for two consecutive years in the CIO Insight Magazine Vendor Value study. Red Hat is leading Linux and open source solutions into the mainstream by making high quality, low cost technology accessible. Red Hat provides operating system software along with middleware, applications and management solutions. Red Hat also offers support, tier partnerships. Red Hat's open source strategy offers customers a long term plan for building infrastructures that are based on and leverage open source technologies with focus on security and ease of management. //www.redhat.com
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The Red Hat Partner Community is bound together by a common commitment to industry standards and open source. This, combined with a rich online experience that starts with Red Hat Network, enables partners to collaborate to build the next generation of technology solutions for customers.
Red Hat, the world's leading open source solutions provider, is headquartered in Raleigh, NC with satellite offices spanning the globe. The most trusted name in open source, level IT executives have ranked Red Hat as the industry's most valued vendor for two consecutive years in the CIO Insight Magazine Vendor Value study. Red Hat is leading Linux and open source solutions into the mainstream by making high quality, low cost technology accessible. Red Hat provides operating system software along with middleware, applications and management solutions. Red Hat also offers support, tier partnerships. Red Hat's open source strategy offers customers a long term plan for building infrastructures that are based on and leverage open source technologies with focus on security and ease of management. www.redhat.com
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With today's announcement, JBoss will become a division of Red Hat with a common business model of delivering and providing production support of open source software. Customers will now have access to a single, proven global production support organization that can service both Red Hat and JBoss customers, in addition to procuring JBoss offerings through the established global channels of Red Hat. With this acquisition, Red Hat continues to lead the widespread adoption of open source solutions for the enterprise, demonstrating the power of its development model to create innovative, high quality software, effective solutions for customers.
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Since 1993, Red Hat has been teaming with key developers of open source technologies to create the foundation that would enable Linux to be driven into the commercial environment. In 1999, Red Hat established the Red Hat Partner Program with computing leaders such as Dell, IBM, Intel Corporation, HP, and Oracle, which has been instrumental to the massive adoption of Linux in the enterprise.
- Acronis, Inc. (www.acronis.com), the technological leader in storage management software, announced it has joined the Red Hat Inc. ( RHAT) ISV Partner Program, which offers software vendors the opportunity to easily access the tools and resources necessary to develop and test their applications on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, the leading platform for open source computing. Acronis also has joined as a Red Hat Ready Partner.
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Now, more than 400 types of hardware and over 1000 enterprise applications are certified on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. The Red Hat Partner Community is a network of hundreds of technology companies, including hardware OEMs, software vendors, training organizations, distributors, developers and now, resellers, hosting providers and a broader range of technology solution vendors. Key partners, now including BEA, Fujitsu, Fujitsu-Siemens, Hitachi, NEC, NetApp, Rackspace , VERITAS and Wind River, and a host of other hardware, software and services companies, have aligned with Red Hat to create certified, industry standard solutions that work in concert with a flexible open source architecture.
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Industrias Penoles is the world's leading producer of refined silver and a customer who has had success with several members of the Red Hat Partner Community. "Through Red Hat's robust partner program our organization has had the choice of several certified options for building our ideal infrastructure based on open source," said Pedro Luis Sanchez Armas, IT Research Manager at Industrias Penoles, S.A. "Both HP and IBM provide our hardware, and we are running Sybase, a Red Hat Certified Application, in the datacenter. Open Trade, a Red Hat Business Partner in Mexico, supports additional Enteprise Linux pilot programs and migrations. For companies new to open source or looking to expand, Red Hat is a great guide in determining which solutions and providers will be the best fit with your organization."
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"The community of Linux developers, software and hardware suppliers, and solution providers has experienced strong growth over the last few years," said Richard Wirt, Intel Senior Fellow and General manager of Intel's Software and Solutions Group. "Intel and Red Hat have a long relationship jointly enabling the Linux community for enterprise technologies and solution deployments."To support customer choice, Red Hat currently offers an array of partner programs including:
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-- Global Distributor Partners: Red Hat's strong network of global distributors allows Red Hat Enterprise technology to be procured in all regions of the worldHardware OEM Partners: Red Hat has close relationships with industry leading system vendors, including Dell, Fujitsu, Hitachi, HP, IBM and NEC. And now, Red Hat has introduced new programs for all sizes of hardware vendors that want to bundle Red Hat Enterprise Linux with hardware.Hardware Certification: Red Hat's hardware certification program is ideal for hardware vendors (servers, workstations, desktops, laptops or peripherals) who want the assurance of having their hardware "Red Hat CertifiedSoftware Partners: Over 300 independent software vendors, including BEA, IBM, Oracle, PeopleSoft and VERITAS, have certified more than 1000 applications for Red Hat Enterprise Linux through Red Hat's comprehensive software partner programs.
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-- Developers: The Red Hat Developer Connection provides technology and information to community and commercial developers that are building software applications to run on Red Hat Enterprise Linux.Training Partners: Red Hat's award-winning training curriculum is available through Red Hat Global Learning Services partners, such as Dell, Global Knowledge, IBM Global Services, Product Point, Sun and Sybase.
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-- NEW Hosting Partners: Enabling another flexible option for customers to access Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat has developed a Hosting Partner Program with key partners such as EV1, Planet Internet, and Rackspace .
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-- NEW Runtime Partners: For partners that want Red Hat Enterprise Linux to be the foundation for a complete technology solution, such as a hardware appliance, the new Red Hat Runtime Program enables partners to be backed by Red Hat's technology, support and services.
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-- NEW Business Partners: Working with leading OEM partners, Red Hat is rolling out innovative business partner programs to support key resellers that have demonstrated Linux expertise.
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The collaborative and transparent nature of open source development allows all market participants to collaborate and innovate to help advance open source. The result is a comprehensive set of high-performing, interoperable solutions for customers.
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Resources and information on Red Hat's Partner Community can be found at http://www.redhat.com/partners or by calling call 866-2-REDHAT.
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About Red Hat, Inc.
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Red Hat, the world's leading open source and Linux provider, is headquartered in Raleigh, NC with satellite offices spanning the globe. Red Hat is leading Linux and open source solutions into the mainstream by making high quality, low cost technology accessible. Red Hat provides operating system software along with middleware, applications and management solutions. Red Hat also offers support, training and consulting services to its customers worldwide and through top-tier partnerships. Red Hat's Open Source strategy offers customers a long term plan for building infrastructures that are based on and leverage open source technologies with focus on security and ease of management. Learn more: http://www.redhat.com
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