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IBM AND RED HAT ANNOUNCE ALLIANCE FOR ENTERPRISE SOLUTIONS ON LINUX
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The World's Largest Technology Company Forms Alliance with Market-leading Provider
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of Linux Software and Expertise
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February 18, 1999--Research Triangle Park, N.C.--Red Hat<61> Software, Inc. announced
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today that it has entered an alliance with IBM to deliver, via IBM Business
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Partners, high-performance IBM systems running Official Red Hat Linux.
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IBM and Red Hat will work collaboratively to optimize IBM personal system hardware
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for running Red Hat Linux, providing customers with powerful and reliable
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enterprise and e-business solutions on the Red Hat Linux platform. Both companies
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will work together to provide enterprise-level technical support and will conduct
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joint marketing to enterprise customers. As a first demonstration of high
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performing e-business solutions based on Red Hat Linux and IBM hardware, several
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high traffic Red Hat web sites will be powered by the award winning Netfinity line
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of servers.
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Under the agreement, a development lab will be established to maximize performance,
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reliability, and security for Red Hat Linux on IBM server and client systems,
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including Netfinity servers, PC 300 Commercial Desktops, IntelliStations, and
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ThinkPads. In addition to contributing developer expertise, Red Hat will also
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perform hardware certification testing and provide dedicated customer training.
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"IBM has long been a leader in powerful, reliable computing solutions," said Bob
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Young, CEO, Red Hat Software. "This is an important milestone in the rapidly
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growing acceptance of Linux."
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More than 10 million users currently run the Linux operating system. According to
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IDC Research, Linux was the fastest-growing server operating environment in 1998,
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capturing more than 17 percent of all server operating system shipments. A new
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survey in LinuxWorld showed that 74 percent of those polled cite Red Hat as the
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most recognized Linux vendor.
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"Our customers are asking for Linux solutions," said Bill McCracken, general
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manager of marketing and strategy, IBM Personal Systems Group. "The Red Hat
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alliance demonstrates IBM<42>s commitment to the open-source movement and to provide
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our customers with an unmatched range of platforms, operating systems, solutions
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and services."
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"The Linux community has faced a number of real and imagined barriers to its
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acceptance within the enterprise; IBM is helping Red Hat to break some of those
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barriers down," said Bill Peterson, Research Manager at IDC. "One of the barriers
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to Linux in the enterprise is the availability of technical support.
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IBM<EFBFBD>s support organization is legendary within the industry and IDC believes that
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with this announcement the technical support argument against Linux in the
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enterprise becomes moot. Red Hat is already the leader in commercial Linux
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shipments and through its numerous recently announced partnerships further
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solidifies itself as one the top choices for enterprise Linux computing."
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About Linux
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Linux is the cooperatively developed POSIX-oriented, multi-user, multi-tasking
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operating system used worldwide. Linux is strongly differentiated from virtually
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all other operating systems because it is "open source" software, with the source code freely available to all users. Unlike
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binary-only operating systems that restrict access to the source code, Linux
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benefits from a worldwide community of highly experienced programmers and technically savvy academics who have the access to
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enhance and improve the system. Linux is used as an exceptional-value, fully
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functional UNIX workstation for Internet servers and other applications. Red Hat
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Linux is maintained as "freely distributable" software available from many sites on
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the Internet.
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About Red Hat <20> Software, Inc.
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Founded in 1994, Red Hat Software is based in Research Triangle Park, N.C., where
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it builds and maintains the award-winning Red Hat Linux operating system. Working
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in cooperation with a huge development team of research, academic, and commercial
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software developers over the Internet, Red Hat<61>s goal is to build the most
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accessible and advanced operating system available anywhere. Red Hat Linux for
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Intel<EFBFBD>, DEC Alpha(TM), and Sun SPARC<52> platforms continues to gain recognition in the
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computer industry: From 1996 to the present, Red Hat Linux was named InfoWorld<6C>s
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Product of the Year, was given a Productivity accolade in Software Development<6E>s
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"Jolt" Awards, was named an Environment/Desktop finalist in the Ziff-Davis European
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Excellence Awards, won the editor<6F>s choice awards from both the Linux Journal and
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Australian Personal Computing magazines, and won the "Just Plain Cool" award.
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For more information about Red Hat Software and Red Hat products and technologies,
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please call 1-888-REDHAT1 or visit our web site at http://www.redhat.com. Reviews
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encouraged.
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About IBM
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IBM is the world<6C>s largest technology company. For more information about IBM
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please visit the company web site at http://www.ibm.com.
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LINUX is a trademark of Linus Torvalds. RED HAT is a registered trademark of Red
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Hat Software, Inc. UNIX is a registered trademark of The Open Group. INTEL is a
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registered trademark of Intel Corporation. SPARC is a registered trademark of SPARC
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International, Inc. Products bearing the SPARC trademarks are based on an
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architecture developed by Sun Microsystems, Inc. ALPHA is a trademark of Digital
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Equipment Corporation.
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IBM and Red Hat Announce Alliance
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