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Apollo Hosting

Solution: 150 Dell servers running Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Founded in 1999, Apollo Hosting is an award winning web hosting company whose services and packages consistently receive the highest rankings in the industry. The company uniquely offers total hosting solutions that enable customers to build, market, and maintain their websites, whether they contain a few simple informational pages or require the most complex e-commerce capabilities. Dedicated to providing the best levels of support to its customers, Apollo was one of the first hosting companies to offer 24/7/365 Live Technical Support Chat and toll-free phone support. With so much to offer, it's no surprise that this privately-owned, Austin-based company began turning a profit since its inception. Today, Apollo Hosting services 30,000 customers worldwide.

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ASP4all

Solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Network Satellite Server, Red Hat Technical Account Manager
With two highly resilient A-class datacenters in Amsterdam, ASP4All a variety of hosting services to companies and governments across the Netherlands. They've chosen Red Hat Enterprise Linux with Red Hat Network Satellite Server as their Linux standard, providing stability, security, and high-availability for their customers.

Backcountry.com

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.

County government regains control of IT infrastructure by migrating from Windows to Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Network
When Pottawattamie County migrated mission-critical tasks from Microsoft Windows to Red Hat Enterprise Linux, it saw increased reliability and control at a significantly lower cost. "From a technical standpoint, we've found that Red Hat Enterprise Linux and other open source solutions could almost always meet the business needs and performance of proprietary alternatives," said Thomas Broniecki, Director of IT.

Federal Aviation Administration

Solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
As the government agency responsible for regulating and overseeing all aspects of civil aviation within the United States, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) accomodates more than two million passengers on domestic airlines every day. With roughly 8,000 airplanes in the air at any given time, the successful execution of the FAA's mission largely depends on the highly complex Traffic Flow Management (TFM) infrastructure and its real-time Enhanced Traffic Management System (ETMS).

Leading French Retailer Chooses Red Hat for Critical Sales and Customer Service System

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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Liberty University

Solution: Red Hat ® Enterprise Linux 4 ; Red Hat Global File System.
The Liberty University IT Development and Engineering Department is responsible for serving the technology needs of Liberty's constantly growing community by providing services to its faculty and staff, as well as both residential and distance learning students.

muvee

Solution: Two Dell servers running Red Hat Enterprise Linux and multiple open source software solutions
The growing number of consumers who are using camcorders, video-capable digital cameras, and camera phones to capture video clips and pictures means that there is a corresponding demand for ways to share these digital experiences. However, video editing tools on the market mostly cater to a minority of video production professionals, and are often too complex, time-consuming, and expensive for everyday use. Singapore based muvee Technologies addresses the growing need for consumer video creation with its flagship autoProducer PC software, which enables anyone to instantly turn videos and pictures into compelling, professional-quality productions in hundreds of different styles. muvee automatically adds themed visual effects to video highlights in sync with the user's chosen music to create an emotionallyengaging, finished production that is ready for sharing. Each production is created in seconds--literally thousands of times faster than using conventional video editing tools. With global partners including Hewlett-Packard, Warner Music Group, Sony, Nikon, LG, and Olympus, the company is currently an internationally recognized leader in this new field of 'Instant Personal Video'.

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PLUS Finanzservice

Solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
PLUS Finanzservice GmbH in Wiesbaden, Germany is a subsidiary of Scandinavian giants IKEA and IKANO. The IT core of PLUS Finanzservice is the Card Management System. Their new card management cluster solution on Red Hat Enterprise Linux is highly fail-safe, yields 30% cost reduction, and give PLUS Finanzservice hardware-independence.

Red Hat offers Gruner + Jahr higher performance at lower cost

Solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SAP, Dell
Gruner + Jahr is faced with the challenge of achieving greater performance with fewer resources. Attracted by the low-cost and high-performance of Linux, they have migrated numerous business-critical applications away from UNIX and Windows NT to Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Secure-24

Solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Secure-24 provides information security and managed hosting solutions for companies who need a reliable, high-quality hosting alternative to in-house solutions. High performance and high availability are paramount to the success of Secure-24. This is why they chose Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat GFS on Dell servers with Intel 64-bit processors when they began building out their IT infrastructure.

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Skanska estimates 30% savings after switching from Sun to Red Hat

Solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, version 3
A world leader in the construction industry, Skanska aims to keep the quality high, the costs low, and customer experience at the world-class level. Efficient and reliable technology plays a major role in achieving this goal, and when it was time to upgrade, Skanska chose to migrate from Sun Solaris to Red Hat Enterprise Linux on Dell for Oracle11i and Oracle10g RAC.

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Virginia Department of Juvenile Justice standardizes juvenile tracking system on Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Having outgrown its legacy UNIX platform, the Virginia Department of Juvenile Justice needed to upgrade its Oracle-based Juvenile Tracking System to a scalable, Web-based architecture. By migrating to a Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Dell solution, the Department was able to upgrade its Oracle-based tracking system at one-third the cost while realizing tremendous gains in performance and scalability.