[May 18, 2012] Red Hat Recognizes 10 Years of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Tweet May 18, 2012 (Close-Up Media via COMTEX) -- Red Hat, Inc., a provider of open source solutions, announced it is celebrating the 10th anniversary of its flagship solution, Red Hat Enterprise Linux. According to a release, with the introduction of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system in May 2002, Red Hat changed the software industry with the first open source software subscription business, spurring the adoption of Linux across the enterprise. Continuously bringing increased levels of IT infrastructure efficiency, Red Hat Enterprise Linux provides solutions to real-world challenges for the most demanding enterprise customers, the Company said. From the financial sector to government, telecommunications to media, logistics to retail, Red Hat Enterprise Linux is relied upon to power many of the heaviest IT workloads in business securely and reliably. "Red Hat is thankful to the worldwide Linux community and all our partners, and is proud to recognize the achievements we've made with Red Hat Enterprise Linux," said Paul Cormier, president of products and technologies at Red Hat. "Building on the last decade, today Red Hat enables the most advanced IT environments in organizations that offer products and services that truly enhance the way we work and live. Red Hat Enterprise Linux is a great example of making disruptive technology an industry standard." Milestones of Red Hat Enterprise Linux include: -Launching the Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) program in 1997, a valuable offering for training IT staff on Linux, that helped spread the use of open source in businesses by giving Red Hat customers access to a pool of resources; -Shifted business focus to the enterprise IT user by shipping an enterprise-grade Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system in May 2002; -Introduction of the first successful open source software subscription business model focusing on reliability and stability, attracting hardware and software partners to port to Red Hat Enterprise Linux; -Merged Red Hat Linux and the Fedora Linux Project to create the Fedora Project, a community collaboration of Red Hat employees and volunteers and an incubator of open source technologies for Red Hat Enterprise Linux; -Development of a 2-20X price/performance increase for enterprise customers with significant cost savings, record-setting performance benchmarks, usage in high-performing super-computers, and integration of security and virtualization technologies; and "Red Hat broke new ground not only for its own benefit, but for a multitude of other business entities that offer commercial support for open source-based products," said Al Gillen, program VP, System Software, IDC. "Try and imagine a world today if Red Hat had not successfully introduced the concept of enterprise-class subscription-based support for an open source product." "The growth of cloud computing requires greater choice and innovation for the datacenter," said Doug Fisher, vice president of the Systems Software Division at Intel. "To help meet these needs, Intel and Red Hat have collaborated for years on Linux and open virtualization, bringing innovative datacenter technologies to market. Intel congratulates Red Hat on the tenth anniversary of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. We look forward to our continuing collaboration and innovation in key areas such as open, trusted, and federated clouds, as well as mission-critical platforms based on open source software and Intel Architecture." More company information: www.redhat.com ((Comments on this story may be sent to [email protected])) [ Back To TMCnet.com's Homepage ]