Skanska leaves UNIX in favor of Red Hat

Skanska leaves UNIX in favor of Red Hat

Red Hat (NASDAQ: RHAT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions to the enterprise, today announced that it has successfully moved Skanska’s business-critical intelligence systems from Unix to a Red Hat Enterprise Linux solution powered by Intel-based hardware. Red Hat’s collaboration with Skanska has resulted in cost savings within Skanska’s IT infrastructure department and has improved the performance of the company’s servers and applications.

Skanska had been using an Oracle business intelligence solution that required a stable, high availability platform, for four years. When Skanska updated to Oracle 11i, it was also necessary to upgrade company hardware in order to enable all features in the new application. To minimize the considerable investment required to perform this upgrade using their old Unix based Sun Solaris platform solution, Skanska evaluated various alternatives from the open source community.

“Security, stability and cost efficiency are important aspects of our business. We found these qualities within the alternative solutions offered by the open source community, especially from Red Hat who provided packaged solutions that include the level of support we require. Importantly, Red Hat has extensive documented experience in enterprise solutions,” says Sara Lewerentz, responsible for IT infrastructure at Skanska Sweden.

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