 "Red Hat Completes 10 Years Of Red Hat Enterprise Linux")
Red Hat, Inc., the provider of open source solutions, celebrated the tenth anniversary of its flagship solution, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, which has transformed the deployment of business-critical applications for IT organisations around the globe. With the introduction of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system in May 2002, Red Hat changed the software industry with the first-ever open source software subscription business, spurring the adoption of Linux across the enterprise.
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 recognise 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 organisations 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.”
CIOs for a broad spectrum of organisations depend on Red Hat Enterprise Linux as a foundation for their enterprise architecture capable of meeting their needs now and in the future. Red Hat Enterprise Linux powers many of the world’s largest public and private cloud, and is the foundation on which many leading new breed of cloud and Software-as-a-Service applications are built and run.
Red Hat’s strategic plans for Red Hat Enterprise Linux include:
continuing to deliver a highly reliable, feature-rich and cost-effective operating system infrastructure;
forming the basis of open hybrid clouds, delivering a consistent environment allowing applications to migrate easily between on-premise and public cloud environments with a consistent development and management platform, with industry-leading multi-tenacy, resource management, and Quality-of-Service management capabilities; and
expanding the use of Linux for many types of workloads – legacy and next-generation, inside and outside the enterprise, on-premise and hybrid – to accommodate the explosive workload demands resulting from social, big data, and mobile applications.
Key milestones of Red Hat Enterprise Linux include the launch of Red Hat Certified Engineer program in 1997, merger of Red Hat Linux and the Fedora Linux Project to create the Fedora Project and establishing Red Hat Enterprise Linux as the premier open source operating system for software and hardware certification and support with more than 9,000 applications and 1,400 ISVs and more than 3,000 certified hardware platforms today, ranging from servers and workstations to storage and mainframes certified for Red Hat Enterprise Linux.