“Red Hat changed the way customers purchase software, pioneering community-driven product development and offering an open source subscription model,” said Doug Oathout, vice president, Alliances and Channel Partner Marketing, Enterprise Group, HP. “Our most recent collaboration, Red Hat Enterprise Linux on HP ProLiant Gen8, provides unparalleled levels of scalability and performance, and showcases our commitment to innovation and the open-source ecosystem.”

“Red Hat’s flagship operating system has helped change market dynamics and proved the feasibility of open-source platforms for enterprise applications,” said Helge Deller, head of SAP LinuxLabs, SAP AG. “SAP’s goal is to make businesses run better. A key part of that goal includes offering flexible infrastructure choices to meet customers’ needs. This enables customers to get the most value out of their business applications, which are key drivers for growth and profit. SAP has always been a technology leader, and was the first to offer software that ran mission-critical ERP operations on Linux. In partnership with Red Hat, we help customers identify where they can leverage the power of open-source solutions reliably to drive down costs and improve operational efficiency.”

Future Direction

CIOs for a broad spectrum of organizations depend on Red Hat Enterprise Linux as a foundation for their enterprise architecture capable of meeting their needs now and in the future. Red Hat Enterprise Linux powers many of the world’s largest public and private cloud, and is the foundation on which many leading new breed of cloud and Software-as-a-Service applications are built and run.

Red Hat’s strategic plans for Red Hat Enterprise Linux include:

• continuing to deliver a highly reliable, feature-rich and cost-effective operating system infrastructure;
• forming the basis of open hybrid clouds, delivering a consistent environment allowing applications to migrate easily between on-premise and public cloud environments with a consistent development and management platform, with industry-leading multi-tenacy, resource management, and Quality-of-Service management capabilities; and
• expanding the use of Linux for many types of workloads – legacy and next-generation, inside and outside the enterprise, on-premise and hybrid – to accommodate the explosive workload demands resulting from social, big data, and mobile applications.