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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 GFS
Messe Munchen International (Munich International Trade Fair--MMI), which organizes about 40 trade fairs for capital goods, consumer goods, and new technologies is one of the world's leading trade fair companies. Over 30,000 exhibitors representing more than 90 countries and two million visitors from about 180 countries take part in the events in Munich every year. With five subsidiary companies abroad, global trade fairs and 75 foreign branches dealing with 89 countries, MMI has a very strong worldwide network.
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Solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
As one of the largest independent trust companies for self-directed retirement plans, First Trust Corporation handles millions of dollars per day, a number that continues to increase. A new transaction system built on HP's Itanium 2-based servers, Oracle9i RAC, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux resulted in a threefold performance improvement to accommodate for their rapid growth.
Solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS
Faced with commodity-style competitors, Fiat Auto needed a way to distinuish it's brand above and beyond quality cars. They instituted Fiat Link, a three-tier sales support and customer relationship management (CRM) tool based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Oracle9i RAC on HP Integrity Servers with 64-bit Intel Itanium 2 processors. Now Fiat dealers have instant access to real-time CRM, dealer, and vehicle information, creating a streamlined buying process while lowering the cost of each sale. Fiat Link will be in use across 5,800 retailers in 17 countries by 2005.
Solution: High Performance Red Hat Enterprise Linux clusters
One of India's premier academic institutions, IIT Kanpur is today globally recognized for its pioneering research projects. The secret? A state of the art research facility that is open to both students and faculty round the clock. By scaling out from a SMP-UNIX based environment to High Performance Red Hat Enterprise Linux clusters, IIT Kanpur has managed to reduce costs and improve performance and management. The two Enterprise Linux clusters have contributed significantly to cutting edge projects.
Solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
The Banche Popolari Unite Group (BPU) is the seventh largest banking group in Italy and the largest co-operative credit bank. They chose Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat Desktop because they received a hands-on approach from Red Hat and guaranteed reliability, robustness, and efficiency from Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat Desktop.
Solution: Red Hat Desktop, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Network
LVM is a nationwide insurance company, operating in the private sectorand represented by 2,100 agencies throughout Germany. After using an in-house Linux solution for years, they needed an enterprise Linux OS that could provide low total cost of ownership, ease of management,stability, security, reliability, and flexibility. Their solution: RedHat Enterprise Linux on their servers and Red Hat Desktop on their desktops.
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Solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
McKesson Provider Technologies wanted to create a comprehensive underlying architecture for its clinical information systems that support a full range of patient care and administrative processes within a healthcare organization. Working with Red Hat, McKesson became the first company to adopt the Red Hat Enterprise Healthcare Platform, a new solution featuring Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), Red Hat Network, and JBoss Enterprise Middleware Suite.
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Solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Denkavit's primary objective was to build a standardized, easy-to-manage system that maintained all current functionality, safeguarded the continuity of all processes, and ensured a flexible future-proof IT environment. The company's calculations also show that its Red Hat Enterprise Linux solution will-overall-be less expensive by a factor of four than some of the other solutions that were under consideration.
Solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, JBoss Application Server
Priceline.com regularly sees millions of page views and thousands of bookings per day. As an Internet-based travel service provider, downtime and outages are not an option. The company decided to shift to Red Hat and open source solutions in order to provide the highest-performing services and applications possible and to realize cost savings. Priceline.com also evaluated JBoss due to the company's predisposition toward developing in Java and to potentially generate further savings based on the open source model.
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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SMHI is Sweden's meteorological and hydrological institute and the country's expert authority on meteorology, hydrology, and oceanography, as well as a resource for many types of environmental work. Many public and private companies rely on SMHI to deliver reliable information on time.
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Solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Technical Account Manager
As an early adopter of Linux for enterprise applications, Statoil has learned many lessons and seen great benefits. As one of the world's largest operators for offshore oil and gas activities, Statoil realized in the late 1990's that they needed to standardize their IT infrastructure. Since then, they've migrated from seven UNIX variants to Red Hat Enterprise Linux. In the process, they've experienced a 50% cost savings, increased performance, and built the largest super-computer in Norway.
Solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
With over 9000 students and 2000 staff member, human resources and payroll are critical systems at Stirling University. When its systems began to lag, it turned to Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Intel Itanium 2-based systems. Not only did Stirling University more than triple its performance, it also cut costs by 50%.
Solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Peñoles looked to Intel-based hardware solutions as a way to significantly and quickly cut costs. Because their IT employees had a UNIX background, Linux quickly emerged as the most viable solution. Peñoles ran several performance tests with multiple Linux distributions, but, according to Pedro Luis Sanchez Armas, IT Research Manager for the mining division, none matched the results they achieved with Red Hat. "It simply tested better," says Sanchez Armas. "We knew after our testing that it would meet our needs of cutting costs while maintaining high levels of security and reliability."