Red Hat Delivers Certified Open Source Stacks Online

Red Hat Delivers Certified Open Source Stacks Online

Red Hat (NASDAQ: RHAT), the world’s leading provider of open source to the enterprise, today announced a new service to provide full certification and production support for key open source software stacks, available online through Red Hat Network. Starting in early 2006, Red Hat will offer three new stacks aimed at simplifying and standardizing open source application stacks, so that developers can focus on their applications instead of configuring the underlying platform. Each stack will be certified and supported on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and delivered in a subscription model. This announcement highlights Red Hat’s growing focus on improving time-to-market for customers’ development projects by helping reduce the certification and testing burden.

“Software developers are familiar with the performance benefits of Linux. Now, they’re beginning to leverage popular open source components for new development projects throughout their enterprise,” said Paul Cormier, executive vice president of Engineering at Red Hat. “These new certified stacks will help them get to market faster, while giving them the confidence to deploy, knowing that Red Hat’s proven production support capability is behind them.”

“IDC’s surveys over the past several years have demonstrated that organizations are very focused on cutting costs and deriving immediate and measurable value from IT investments,” said Dan Kusnetzky, vice president of IDC’s System Software research. “Red Hat’s move to add value above the Red Hat Enterprise Linux platform and into open source solutions stacks is consistent with these organizational priorities. It is my view that this announcement will be well received.”

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