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Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

The world's leading open source application platform

On one certified platform, Red Hat Enterprise Linux offers you the choice of:

  • Applications - Thousands of certified ISV applications
  • Deployment - Including standalone or virtual servers, cloud computing, or software appliances
  • Hardware - Wide range of platforms from the world's leading hardware vendors

This gives IT departments unprecedented levels of operational flexibility. And it gives ISVs unprecedented market reach when delivering applications. Certify once, deploy anywhere. All while providing world-class performance, security, and stability. And unbeatable value.

This is why Red Hat is the platform of choice.

Linux Automation

Red Hat Enterprise Linux is a central component of Red Hat’s Linux
Automation strategy, which covers all facets of the IT environment
necessary to enable any application to be run anywhere, at any time. The
strategy creates an infrastructure which is built for automation,
including virtualization, identity management, high availability, and
performance capabilities.

Eliminate barriers to adoption

Red Hat Enterprise Linux solutions, in combination with other
Red Hat technologies-such as JBoss middleware solutions - provide the
easy, no-risk path to open source cost savings. Use commodity hardware. Interoperate
easily with existing UNIX and Windows infrastructure.
Deploy applications you know and trust. Reduce system administration
costs through high server/admin ratios and desktop-to-mainframe
consistency.

Eliminate economic constraints

Basing your solution on open source technologies wherever practical - from the
virtualization hypervisor to the SOA middleware to the end user application - guarantees
you'll make the most of your IT budget. Despite what vendors of single solutions
tell you about their product’s cost - it’s the overall total cost that matters.
And open source solutions offer lower total costs:

  • Lower capital expense and operational expense
  • Elimination of vendor lock-in - puts the customer in control.
  • Proven superior product quality - better security, higher performance
  • Technology leadership - driven by industry-wide collaboration
  • Flexibility - deploy what you need, when you need, how you need it

Broadest open source ecosystem

Customers using new deployment paradigms, including virtualization, need the
confidence they can deploy on the widest range of hardware and applications - now
and in the future. Red Hat’s open source development brings you the world's
largest open source ecosystem of certified hardware and software.

Applications: Certify once-deploy anywhere

Red Hat Enterprise Linux provides a standardized environment for your
applications so they can be deployed however your business requires. And Red Hat
application partners need only certify their applications once.

With over 3000 applications certified to run on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, you
can run the application you need, where you need it, today.

Choose your preferred way to deploy

Red Hat Enterprise Linux is the most flexible operating system environment
available. Enterprise Linux solutions are ideal for all of these deployment
types - using the same applications. Deploy whichever environment best suits your business:

  • Standalone or "bare metal" systems

    This is the most common environment for servers today. Red Hat Enterprise
    Linux scales from desktop and laptop systems, to small servers, to the largest

    SMP servers and to mainframes. And, of course, it is ideal for blade and rack environments - especially
    today's popular 4-CPU quad-core systems.

  • Virtualized

    Virtualized systems, which offer improved resource management and operational
    flexibility through features such as live migration, dynamic resource
    allocation, high availability, and clustering. Enterprise Linux provides
    the industry’s highest performance, complete virtualization capability,
    for no additional charge.

    Virtualization is the fastest growing method of deployment - up to 15%
    of all servers are expected to be virtualized in the next five years.
    Virtualization lets you maximize your resources and increase deployment
    flexibility and responsiveness.

  • Software as a Service

    Software-as-a-Service, or cloud computing deployments, allows customers
    to extend their compute resources outside the walls of the data center -
    providing an on-demand infrastructure that can scale to up or down to meet
    business requirements. Red Hat Enterprise Linux is available as a certified
    and supported platform deployed on Amazon’s Elastic Computing Cloud - EC2.

  • Appliances

    Red Hat Enterprise Linux-based appliances allow ISVs to distribute applications
    pre-packaged as complete solutions, including the operating system, simplifying
    deployment, management, and maintenance. Red Hat's appliance strategy covers
    a wide range of deployment opportunities, including:

    • Fully featured application stacks available through Red Hat Exchange
    • Lightweight portable media solutions - self-contained, easily provisioned tokens
      such as USB keys and live CDs providing a portable, low-cost application
      environment.