Red Hat Enterprise Linux is an enterprise platform well-suited for a broad range of applications across today's multi-vendor and multi-platform IT infrastructures. When you select software for your datacenter, you must consider how well it will operate in that heterogeneous environment. Created with a truly open process, Red Hat Enterprise Linux is an open platform that gives you flexibility, choice, and access to a broad range of innovations to help you control your costs and your future.

Benefits Reduce migration and porting time Quick migration of Solaris applications to Linux Little change to the original Solaris management environment Little domain or migration expertise needed Negligible impact on production operations and performance impact

Business Value of Linux and Open Source

Invest In Supportability. Linux scales from the smallest devices to large multiprocessor systems and mainframes—no other OS provides this breadth of coverage.

Build Better Scalability. By using commodity-based components, Linux can build large clusters that can be managed and controlled as a single system image.

Avoid Vendor Lock-In. The more your organization uses and deploys solutions based on open standards, the greater is its vendor independence.

Future-Proof Environment. The Linux community aims to develop standards that promote compatibility, enabling Linux applications to be supported on any compliant system.

Improve Infrastructure Stability. Since the Linux kernel is developed from the combined effort of many development groups and standards committees, software components have been designed to interoperate efficiently, securely and more reliably.

Obtain Better Software Quality. Open source development improves software quality through open peer review as well as providing a natural mechanism for rapid software fixes.

Reduce Total Cost of Ownership. By avoiding the use of proprietary hardware and its associated high-priced software, Linux provides a low cost of computing with the broad availability of open source applications and support for commodity-based hardware.

Improve Application Performance. Linux is valued as a high-performance operating system due to its modular design and lightweight kernel footprint. Integer and floating-point performance improvements from Intel and AMD help Linux achieve the best performance benchmarks in the industry.

Establish Better Security. Linux has received a significantly greater level of peer review than any proprietary code base. And since Linux does not incorporate obscure, proprietary protocols or services, it's inherently easier to make it more secure.

To learn more about our successful proprietary UNIX to Red Hat Linux migrations, download our datasheet or email us at info@virtual.com.

To learn more about Linux and open source adoptions, read Paradigm Shift: Seven Keys of Highly Successful Linux and Open Source Adoptions by Mark Teter, the ASG Chief Technology Officer.