2008 Red Hat Innovation Awards | 2008 RHCEs of the Year

2008 Red Hat Innovation Awards

Red Hat is pleased to announce the results of the 2008 Red Hat Innovation Awards. The Awards provide an opportunity for the Red Hat community to share their stories and be recognized for their commitment to innovating and extending Red Hat technologies. Red Hat customers and partners worldwide were invited to submit a nomination, or be nominated by a development team leader, business partner, or supplier.

A panel of judges selected one winner from each of the categories below to be an Innovation Award winner. Winners receive a free pass to the Red Hat Summit, where their technological achievements will be featured in a press release and at an awards ceremony.

Congratulations IBM / Raytheon
2008 Red Hat Innovator of the Year

Category Winners

Delivered Value

Recognition of the impressive use of management tools, including Red Hat Network and JBoss Operations Network, to drive down TCO and increase ROI.

• Winner - Nortel

Optimized Systems

Recognition of striking performance and scalability enhancements delivered by open source solutions.

• Winner - Infoplex

Extensive Ecosystem

Recognition of the use of Red Hat's expanding partner ecosystem to create innovative architectures based on open source solutions.

• Winner - Freedom OSS & Dun & Bradstreet

Enhanced Security

Recognition of the effective use of Red Hat solutions to heighten the security of IT systems.

• Winner - Likewise Software

Creative Use

Recognition of unconventional implementations of emerging technologies such as Fedora or other open source projects to create unique solutions.

• Winner - IBM and Raytheon Company

Superior Alternatives

Recognition of the most successful migration from proprietary solutions to open source alternatives.

• Winner - Booz Allen Hamilton

Red Hat recognizes 2008 RHCEs of the year

RHCE of the Year is a contest in which RHCEs write a short essay on how products and certification from Red Hat have made an impact on their work, their lives, and their communities. We simply ask: tell us your story. Some stories about the transformations they have made possible at a business using technologies from Red Hat. Some are stories about transformations in communities using Fedora. And some are stories about how people's individual lives have been transformed by becoming RHCEs. As one of our 2007 winners put it, "RHCE did not help me get higher on the ladder, it showed me a different ladder."

Congratulations to this year's winners:

• Michael Yingbull
  PMC-Sierra
  Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada


• Anil Waychal
  Suma Soft Pvt Ltd
  Pune, India


• David Yip
  Capital Servicing Co., Ltd.
  Tokyo, Japan


• Jeroen van Meeuwen
  Operator Groep Delft
  Netherlands


• Michael Thomas
  
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena, California USA

Read more about the winners.