[ossig] City of Vienna deploys Red Hat

[Ditesh Kumar]

>From http://www.ciol.com/content/developer/Linux/2006/106111401.asp

City of Vienna deploys Red Hat

The city of Vienna has migrated more than 100 servers to Red Hat
Enterprise Linux, principally deploying Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES and
AS on HP hardware

Tuesday, November 14, 2006

RALEIGH, NC: Open source solutions provider Red Hat, , today announced
that the city of Vienna has selected Red Hat Enterprise Linux as the
platform of choice for its servers. 

"Red Hat has always had a rigorous focus on the stability of its Linux
platform, a commitment that has been apparent and appreciated by us ever
since we began deploying Red Hat," explains Franz Brauneder, server
management at the City of Vienna. 

"In addition, Red Hat could always provide the largest partner network
and the most certifications from ISVs and IHVs. Not only was this a key
factor for our choice of an operating system, but it is reflected in our
own experience of the outstanding quality of the Red Hat software" he
added.

The city of Vienna has migrated more than 100 servers to Red Hat
Enterprise Linux, principally deploying Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES and
AS on HP hardware. Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES is used by the city of
Vienna to power its Samba file servers and Apache servers, together with
legacy applications written by the city of Vienna itself. 

For applications such as its Oracle databases, which need both a lot of
resources and highly availability, the IT managers of the city of Vienna
selected Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS. In the future, the city of Vienna
expects to expand this area of its Linux installation with the imminent
deployment of PostgreSQL on Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS together with
the migration of its AIX-Unix databases to Red Hat's flagship solution,
a Red Hat statement said.

Werner Knoblich, vice president and general manager, Red Hat EMEA,
stated: "The city of Vienna has made a fundamental decision for an
expanded deployment of open source software in order to, among other
things, avoid vendor-lock-in. Fully open source and with no hidden
costs, Red Hat Enterprise Linux is not only the distribution with the
fewest patches by far, but its maintenance by the community ensures Red
Hat's customers are guaranteed the highest product quality and
vendor-independence."

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