Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced the recognition of five Red Hat EMEA partners through awards presented at the Red Hat EMEA Partner Summit, which took place April 2-4, 2008 in Malaga, Spain. Altkom, OpenNet, Essi Projects, Redpill and VDEL were recognized for their dedication to the growth and development of Red Hat’s business and partnerships throughout EMEA.
VDEL was declared Distributor of the Year!!
“We’re very proud that VDEL been selected as the Red Hat Distributor of the Year in EMEA. This honor shows the level of importance that Red Hat, our partners, our customers and all VDEL employees have placed on teamwork,” said Milan Prohaska, director of Business Development at VDEL. “I personally am proud have a part in such a successful team that has brought such impressive growth to Red Hat in Central and Eastern Europe.”
VDEL exclusively provides Red Hat services in the territory of Russia and CIS – with native language technical support, training and consultation . VDEL also runs a partner network for development companies interested in open source software.
About Red Hat
Red Hat is the leading provider of Linux solutions, and the oldest major company operating in this area. It has been developing, supplying and supporting Linux solutions since 1993.
Red Hat continues to be a major contributor to the development of Linux and other open source products. In this way Red Hat differs from many other companies that only package and supply solutions, and do not participate in their development.
Red Hat is the only major company that works exclusively with open source software.
Many well-known companies are involved in the development and delivery of open software, in some way, but the main activity is elsewhere. According to the analyses and reports of the companies themselves, the percentage of open software in their business is only a few percent, and they have no ongoing commitment to it. Red Hat is 100% committed to open source and its future
Red hat also ensure that all technologies included in its products comply fully with international standards and de facto rules that already exist in the world of open software.
Red Hat is truly international with locations throughout the world. In some places this is purely through Red Hat, in others through partners like VDEL.