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RALEIGH, NC - January 23, 2007 - Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that Sage Software, a leading vendor of software and services to physician practices in the United States, will make The Medical Manager by Sage available on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. The integrated solution combining The Medical Manager on Red Hat’s platform will be made available by Sage Software to their customers.Sage Software provides integrated electronic health records, electronic data interchange (EDI) applications and practice management systems to more than 20,000 ambulatory care practices throughout North America. These systems enable physicians and practice managers to better manage their practices and improve profitability. » Read more
Company benefits from central, secure management through Red Hat Network and plans to expand open source deployment with JBoss.
RALEIGH, NC - January 29, 2007 - Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that Union Bank of California, one of the 25 largest banks in the United States, will standardize its IT infrastructure on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. The Company migrated to Red Hat Enterprise Linux from AIX to realize significant performance gains as well as centralized, secure management through Red Hat Network. Union Bank is also piloting JBoss as well as MySQL and plans to make Red Hat’s complete solution stack part of its core technology direction. » Read more
Industry: Financial Trading
Geography: Global
Challenge: To integrate varied trading platforms to produce a high-speed, low-cost platform that offers the reliability and flexibility necessary to produce the rapid performance results demanded by the expanding financial trading industry
Migration Path: HP UX, IBM AIX, and SUN Solaris to Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Network
Hardware: 200 HP ProLiant DL585 four-processor servers, 400 ProLiant BL 685c blades, AMD dual-core Opteron processors
Benefits: Implemented a reliable, secure, and cost-effective solution that provided flexibility, freedom from vendor lock-in, and the ability to handle heavy workloads while producing fast-paced performance results
“Red Hat is extremely strategic and without it, most of our computers wouldn’t be running,” said Steve Rubinow, Chief Information Officer at NYSE Euronext.
Industry: Media
Geography: Atlanta
Opportunity: Build a technology infrastructure for growing the Atlanta Journal Constitution’s online user base and implement system redundancy to achieve 100 percent uptime of applications
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, Red Hat Cluster Suite, MySQL
Hardware: 19 servers – both IBM Blades and commodity hardware
Benefits: Achieved previously unmatched flexibility, reliability, and cost savings by developing an infrastructure that accommodates rapid growth while optimizing resources and improving performance with virtually no downtime
“The multi-master replication was a huge issue for us previously. Red Hat Directory Server has solved that completely. Students, faculty and staff are our end users and this solution gives them the ability to make password changes effectively and securely so they can focus on their work.”
- Michael Pettinicchio, Systems Administrator, Dartmouth College
Industry: Higher Education
Geography: New Hampshire
Opportunity: Experiencing major issues and frustration with password replication that caused headaches for end users and IT staff
Migration Path: Sun ONE Directory Server to Red Hat Directory Server
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat Directory Server
Benefits: Eliminated replication issues and increased security in seamless transition
“Red Hat training is a big reason why we’ve been able to keep things running smoothly.
The best compliment from our average end user is nothing at all and that is what we’ve heard since the RHEL deployment.”
Jon Cutler, Director of Systems Administration, Marshall University
Industry: Higher Education
Geography: West Virginia
Opportunity: Running on a slow and expensive older system caused frustration for many at Marshall
Migration Path: SunGard Banner on HP AlphaServer with Open VMS to Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Software: SunGard Banner on RHEL
Hardware: Dell
Benefits: Enjoying increased performance, improved speed, and enhanced hardware options in a simplified environment
Industry: Real Estate and Movie Exhibition Corporation
Challenge: With a growing online customer base, Decurion’s ArcLightCenmas.com looked to fix issues with its ticket sales website, previously based on Microsoft’s .NET framework.
Migration Path: .NET framework to JBoss Enterprise Applciation Platform
Solution: JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat Global File System
Benefits: Enhanced support and increased performance, scalability and cost-effectiveness.
Geography: Los Angeles, CA
“JBoss Enterprise Middleware helps us accelerate solution delivery because it provides the beneficial features associated with open source solutions, combined with easy deployment and impressive customer service and support.”
Brad Bahmanpour, Enterprise Systems Architect at Decurion
Customer: Incentive Logic
Industry: Performance-based rewards solutions
Geography: Scottsdale, Arizona
Opportunity: Transforming the infrastructure for increased scalability and agility.
Solution: The JBoss Enterprise Application Platform and an interactive, hands-on workshop
Software: JBoss Enterprise Application Server, JBoss Seam, JBoss Hibernate
Migration Path: Pearl-based environment to JBoss Enterprise Application Platform
Benefits: Faster development, greater scalability and “Ignited Performance”
“We have a very smart, fast-moving team and had set very aggressive deadlines for
taking our designs and re-factoring them in JBoss. “Instructor-led or
classroom training wasn’t going to work. We needed someone who had detailed
knowledge of the entire platform, as well as of the specific applications and who could
go shoulder-to-shoulder as we tore into the code.”
- Frank Gartland, Vice President, Solution Strategy and Development, Incentive Logic.
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Category: Certified Service Provider
Winner:Amentra
Submitted by: Amentra Team
Industry: Amentra = Technology / La Petite Academy = Education
Geography: Virginia
Overview
Selected for helping enterprises deploy mission-critical business systems on JEMS through a formal, experience-proven mentoring and software development program.
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Category: Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) Implementation
Winner:Vivat (client = US Trust)
Submitted by: Max Yankelevich, Chief Architect
Industry: Vivat = Technology Partner / US Trust = Government, Financial
Geography: Bensalem, PA
Overview
Vivat (www.vivatconsulting.com), a professional services organization focused on Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Enterprise Application Integration, was selected based on its work with US Trust, one of the oldest private banking firms in the U.S. Vivat successfully moved US Trust’s main revenue stream, the Client Fee Calculator, from an antiquated legacy system to a new SOA system built on JBoss technologies, including JBoss Rules and JBoss Application Server. The solution is expected to bring in an additional $20 million over the next five years as well as maximize customer profits, thanks to newly transparent and manageable fee rules.
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Category: Ecosystem
Winner: Rivet Logic Corporation
Submitted by: Mike Vertal, CEO/President/Owner
Industry: Rivet = Technology Partner / Kaplan = Education
Geography: Reston, VA
Overview
Rivet Logic, a provider of professional services focused on open source solutions, and Kaplan Test Prep and Admissions, a premier provider of educational and career services for individuals, schools and businesses, were selected for their use of Alfresco’s content management platform in support of the upgrade of Kaplan’s online presence from a legacy system to a JBoss-centric solution. The teams employed JBoss Seam (and Facelets), JBoss Application Server, Hibernate and jBPM to create a next-generation platform for the www.kaptest.com site that can deliver personalized applications and dynamic, targeted content. The results include a 26x performance improvement over the legacy content authoring/delivery system, much faster page load times and a “fresher” web presence for Kaplan Test Prep and Admissions.
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Category: User Experience
Winner: Daiwa Securities America
Submitted by: Steve Dunstan, Vice President / Enterprise Systems Architect
Industry: Financial services
Geography: New York, NY
Overview
Migration of 120 separate applications running to JBoss Portal using a series of unified templates. This enabled rapid growth, increased productivity, faster service, and hundreds of thousand of dollars in cost-savings.
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Category: Migration
Winner: Sakonnet
Submitted by: David Renton, Vice President, Product Delivery at Sakonnet
Industry: Oil and Gas
Geography: New York, London, Rio de Janeiro
Overview
Used JBoss Application Server and Red Hat Enterprise Linux to develop a scalable, performance-driving, well-supported solution that provided ease-of-use, cost savings, and transparency for Sakonnet’s energy-trading solutions. With JBoss Application Server, Sakonnet discovered a solution that combined low-cost, quality software and reliable support to fit into its Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) strategy of frequent application upgrades and top-notch support.
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Category: Joint JBoss/Red Hat Deployment
Winner: CompuCredit Corporation
Submitted by: Guido F. Sacchi, CIO and SVP, Corporate Strategies, Cindy Hayden, Manager of Real-Time Integration
Industry: Financial services
Geography: Atlanta, GA
Overview
Used JBoss Enterprise Application Platform to construct an XML Gateway that serves as the company’s main real-time transaction hub—enabling rapid growth, increased productivity, faster service, and millions of dollars in cost-savings.
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Industry: Healthcare
Geography: Orlando, Florida
Opportunity: Design a new disaster-recovery system that would ensure seamless business continuity for the hospital
Migration Path: IBM AIX to Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux; Red Hat Global File System and Cluster Suite; Red Hat Network; JBoss Enterprise Application Platform; MySQL, Oracle, Caché, FoxPro, and Postgres databases; proprietary applications for reporting and management of patient data and for mail, security, and virus protection
Hardware: HP and IBM servers
Benefits: Streamlined disaster recovery and gained higher system availability and resource efficiencies that translate into better patient care
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