DELIVERING VALUE. YEAR AFTER YEAR.

For the fifth time in six years, Red Hat ranks as the #1 software vendor in the CIO Insight Vendor Value study.

When you ask CIOs what matters to them most, keeping promises and meeting expectations are right up there with increasing capacity, lowering costs, and meeting ROI goals. Doing more with less is important, but working with a trusted partner is invaluable.

That's why Red Hat is so proud to rank #1 among software companies in Ziff Davis' 2009 CIO Insight Vendor Value study. The study polls IT executives on how they value their vendors' products and services. This is the fifth time in six years Red Hat was named most valuable software vendor. Red Hat also topped the list for meeting vendor expectations for customer value, flexibility, and responsiveness. And for good measure, Red Hat was the highest-ranking software company on the overall list of IT vendors across all categories--software, networking, hardware, and security.

As the trusted open source leader, Red Hat collaborates in communities to create better technology--and then deliver solutions to our customers that offer the highest levels of performance and reliability at a reasonable price.

We take the best open source technology, harden it, test it, and certify it for use in mission-critical enterprise computing. We offer our solutions via a customer-friendly subscription. We give CIOs a choice and an opportunity to build an architecture that fits their vision, not ours.

And that's why 92% of the IT executives surveyed say they plan to do business with Red Hat in the future.

Read the press release.

To learn more about Red Hat's track record of trust and value, take a look at previous survey results:

CIO Insight Vendor Value studies: 2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005

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