Red Hat Establishes Government Business Unit

Red Hat Establishes Government Business Unit

Red Hat, the leading provider of open source solutions to the enterprise, announced that it has selected Paul Smith to lead the company’s new Government business unit as Vice President, Government Sales Operations.

Red Hat has experienced great traction with Linux in governments world-wide since the launch of Red Hat Enterprise Linux in 2002. Today in the U.S., every cabinet-level department and hundreds of state and local governments across the country are running open source software. Red Hat U.S. government customers such as NOAA, DOE, GSA, FAA, DHS/FEMA, PTO and the Defense Department have identified Red Hat Enterprise Linux as a standard platform for server-side applications and workloads including Web, database, network security, high performance computing, and mission critical applications.

Through collaboration with the open source community, Red Hat is leading the way in making secure solutions based on open source affordable and attractive to the mainstream. As a result, government agencies are delivering services more securely and reliably while retaining flexibility to meet future demands and managing fiscal responsibility.

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