Red Hat’s Global Community of Channel Partners See Increase in Demand for Oracle on Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Red Hat’s Global Community of Channel Partners See Increase in Demand for Oracle on Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Red Hat, Inc. (NASDAQ: RHAT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions to the enterprise, today announced that leading channel partners are expanding their open source business in response to customer demand. Partners are noting particular acceleration for Oracle solutions on Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Since 2002, enterprise customers have experienced great performance gains at a lower cost by moving from proprietary UNIX to Linux. The most significant performance gains were realized in data intensive application workloads. The drive to increase performance while reducing costs continues with a recent record-setting achievement: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 running Oracle Database 10g R2 Enterprise Edition with Partitioning is the current performance world record holder for the Transaction Processing Performance Council’s TPC-H 3000GB benchmark, achieved using an HP BladeSystem ProLiant BL25p cluster 64p DC system on June 8, 2006. This result demonstrated 5 percent better performance and 30 percent better price/performance than the number two result, a Sun Fire E25K server running Solaris 10.

Today Red Hat’s Advanced Business Partners are helping their customers migrate critical business applications to Linux. Solution providers are ramping up to respond to the expansive demand for Oracle solutions on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Compel Group PLC is a leading provider of enterprise IT solutions and a Red Hat Advanced Business Partner in the United Kingdom. Compel is the largest Oracle solution provider in the UK with over 120 Oracle consultants who deliver tailored business solutions built on the broad portfolio of Oracle software. “We have seen significant interest in Oracle 10g on the Red Hat Enterprise Linux platform over the past twelve months and expect this trend to increase with the predicted market growth,” said Enzo Brienza, Marketing Manager, Compel Group Plc.

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