Mumbai: Red Hat, a provider of open source solutions, today celebrates the 10th  anniversary of its flagship solution, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, which has transformed the deployment of business-critical applications for IT organizations around the globe. With the introduction of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system in May 2002, Red Hat dramatically changed the software industry with the first-ever open source software subscription business, spurring the adoption of Linux across the enterprise.

Continuously bringing increased levels of IT infrastructure efficiency, Red Hat Enterprise Linux provides solutions to real-world challenges for the most demanding enterprise customers. From the financial sector to government, telecommunications to media, logistics to retail, Red Hat Enterprise Linux is relied upon to power many of the heaviest IT workloads in business securely and reliably.

“Red Hat is thankful to the worldwide Linux community and all our partners, and is proud to recognize the achievements we’ve made with Red Hat Enterprise Linux,” said Paul Cormier, president of products and technologies at Red Hat. “Building on the last decade, today Red Hat enables the most advanced IT environments in organizations that offer products and services that truly enhance the way we work and live. Red Hat Enterprise Linux is a great example of making disruptive technology an industry standard.”

 “Red Hat broke new ground not only for its own benefit, but for a multitude of other business entities that offer commercial support for open source-based products,” said Al Gillen, program VP, System Software, IDC. “Try and imagine a world today if Red Hat had not successfully introduced the concept of enterprise-class subscription-based support for an open source product.”

Through its community-powered innovation and partner ecosystem strength, Red Hat connects with technology leaders to bring proven, high-performing Linux solutions to our joint customers.

“The growth of cloud computing requires greater choice and innovation for the datacenter,” said Doug Fisher, vice president of the Systems Software Division at Intel. “To help meet these needs, Intel and Red Hat have collaborated for years on Linux and open virtualization, bringing innovative datacenter technologies to market. Intel congratulates Red Hat on the tenth anniversary of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. We look forward to our continuing collaboration and innovation in key areas such as open, trusted, and federated clouds, as well as mission-critical platforms based on open source software and Intel Architecture.”

“For more than 10 years, Dell and Red Hat have helped bring open source standards and solutions to the data center,” said Gerry Hackett, vice president, Server Platform and Engineering, Dell. “We congratulate Red Hat on 10 years of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and we look forward to continuing to provide customers with innovative joint solutions that lower total cost of ownership and increase return on investment.”