[ossig] [myoss] City of Vienna deploys Red Hat

[Mohd Irwan Jamaluddin]

So-called complete press release:
http://www.redhat.com/about/news/prarchive/2006/vienna.html

On 11/14/06, Ditesh Kumar <ditesh at gathani.org> wrote:
> >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."
>
> (c) CyberMedia News
>


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