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Solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and Fedora
As the name behind Australia's favourite rewards programs, FlyBuys and MYERone, the Loyalty Pacific Pty Ltd joint venture between Coles Group Limited and National Australia Bank was created in 1994 to establish and manage customer loyalty development and fulfillment initiatives. Today, more than 2.8 million Australian households actively use their FlyBuys cards each month.
Solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 and 4, Oracle Application Server 10g and Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition
New Zealand Post is internationally recognised as one of the most efficient providers of inexpensive postal services in the world.
Solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
With 331 B&Q stores and brands such as Trade Depot and Screwfix Direct in the UK, 102 Castorama and 73 Brico Dépôt stores in France, 26 Castorama stores in Italy, 30 in Poland, 7 Brico Dépôt stores in Spain, and two in Russia, the British Kingfisher Group is the European leader in the home improvement and DIY market. The Kingfisher Group is also present in Turkey with the Koçta stores and in Asia with B&Q China, B&Q Taiwan and B&Q Korea, and has a major stake in Hornbach, the German leader in DIY Retail. The Kingfisher Group is the world's third-largest retailer in the DIY sector.
Solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Network Satellite Server, and JBoss Application Server with Tomcat and Apache web servers
Priceline.com Incorporated (Nasdaq: PCLN) operates Priceline.com, a leading US online travel service for value-conscious leisure travelers, and Priceline Europe, a leading European online hotel reservation service.
In the US, Priceline.com offers customers more ways to save on their airline tickets, hotel rooms, rental cars, vacation packages, and cruises than any other Internet travel service. In addition to getting the best published prices, leisure travelers can narrow their searches using Priceline.com's TripFilter™ advanced search technology, creating packages that save even more money and take advantage of Priceline.com's famous Name Your Own Price® service, which can deliver the lowest prices available.
Solution: Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® 3 and 4, Red Hat® Network, Fedora™ Core 5
Backcountry.com is an online retailer that sells high-end outdoor gear for hard-core recreational enthusiasts and athletes. The company is dedicated to being the most successful online retailer of the best-built outdoor and backcountry gear in the world. Born out of the founders' love of skiing and the Internet, Backcountry.com now works with over 385 brands and 100,000 skus. Founded in 1996 with just $2,000 of the co-founders' own money, Backcountry.com had net sales revenue of $52 million in FY05. The company has operated out of a 207,000 square foot warehouse in Salt Lake City, Utah since August 2005.
Solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS, Oracle10g Standard Edition, Java 1.5, AMD Opteron, Red Hat Network
Wotif.com, founded in 2000, is Australia's leading last-minute accommodations website and the global specialist in its field. In 2002, Wotif.com was essentially a Microsoft shop. Wotif.com was having enormous issues with performance, scalability, and system availability because of 80-100% yearly growth. They decided that Wotif.com's overall architecture needed a solution that was scalable, open source, and UNIX-like. Buy-in and support from tier-one vendors like Oracle was also essential. The platform that best met these needs was Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Network Satellite Server, Red Hat Professional Services
Lapeyre is a leading manufacturer and distributor of home improvement products in Europe. As they prepared to upgrade their critical sales and services application to Oracle9i, they needed an operating platform that ensured stability, availability, and full compatibility with their existing environment. So they migrated to Red Hat Enterprise Linux combined with Red Hat Network Satelite Server.
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Solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Ticketmaster is the world's leading ticketing company,selling more than 98 million tickets, and serving more than 9,000 venue, promoter, sports team, and event clients worldwide in 2004. Ticketmaster scheduled eight months to add high-performance email to its existing CRM solution, but was operational in one month with StrongMail and Red Hat Enterprise Linux, providing them unprecedented speed, delivery, and control.
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Solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SAP
Heritage Propane Partners distributes propane to more than 650,000 customers in the US. Until 2003, Heritage ran a DOS-based accounting system; however, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and short deadlines for compliancy quickly rendered these systems out of date. Heritage is a cost-conscious company and had always found the value proposition of open source software very compelling. Given the project's large scale and short timelines, choosing the right solutions and knowledgable vendors was critical. They chose SAP ERP Financials, MySQL MaxDB, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and had the solution live in three months.
Solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS
As a leading internet-based automotive company, Auto Trade Center knows that their competitive edge depends on technology --their e-commerce site must be reliable, stable, and responsive with at least 99.99% availability. Red Hat Enterprise Linux with Oracle9i RAC on HPProLiant servers exceeds their needs. Now Auto Trade Center customers can sell their vehicles online in 1/5 the time it would take via the typical offline process. The company has seen a big boost in revenue, which allows them to pass savings onto their customers.
Solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Impressed with the high-performance, low-cost capabilities of their Linux front end, Orbitz began to look for other areas in which to leverage those benefits. The first place they looked was in the application layer. They compared price and performance per instance using BEA WebLogic on both Sun Solaris and Red Hat Linux, and found that Linux would allow significant cost savings with no sacrifice in performance. They decided to migrate.
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Solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
The Chronicle Herald is the biggest independently-owned newspaper in Canada and boasts a daily readership of 333,000. As a thoroughly automated newspaper operation, The Chronicle Herald requires a highly available server and operating system to keep operations moving 24x7. It recently migrated from a Sun Enterprise 3000 environment to IBM eServer BladeCenter with Red Hat Enterprise Linux, a decision that saves CA$14,000 (US$10,500) over three years in maintenance costs alone. Additionally, The Chronicle Herald uses Samba and Sendmail for file system and e-mail software rather than Microsoft® Windows NT® and Microsoft Exchange, creating a savings of CA$25,000 (US$18,800).
When Juan Quesada's company, a leading home builder, began considering Linux in 2001, Juan turned to Red Hat for instructor-led training. Early the following year he became a Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) and is now the Linux "go-to guy." "Experience is important," Juan notes, "but the RHCE proved to my company that I had the knowledge needed to carry out the Linux deployment with confidence and within time constraints."
Solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
The Province of Gelderland is a Dutch governmental body that coordinates policy implementation by local councils, water boards, and other agencies.
All IT facilities for the Province's staff are accommodated in its DS/IT department with a staff of 50.
As with other Dutch government organizations, the Province of Gelderland is required to find cost-effective solutions and provide in-house IT facility services at market-standard rates.
The Province also needed to migrate a heterogeneous infrastructure based on Unix and MPE/iX to a standardized environment while maintaining or improving the functionality and level of its IT performance.
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