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Red Hat Subscription Center Monthly Communications

December 2006 - North America

 

Welcome to the December Partner Update, Red Hat's monthly channel partner communication. This month we have important information about Red Hat and open source.

Check out previous channel communications.

JOIN THE RED HAT READY BUSINESS PARTNER PROGRAM TODAY.

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RED HAT AND OPEN SOURCE

Open source returns control and choice to your customer. It allows users to take advantage of the rapid innovations made by engineers around the world. Red Hat feels that the open source development model leads to more secure, higher-quality code because of the large community of engineers and users contributing to it.

If your customer doesn't like how one vendor is serving them, they are free to choose another without overhauling their IT infrastructure. This means:

  • No more monopolies that dictate what your customer can do.
  • No more arbitrary pricing. Vendors have to prove their value every day.
  • No more technology lock-in with high switching costs.

You and your customers have a choice.

Here's why you should choose Red Hat.

Red Hat delivers the most reliable, stable, and enterprise-ready Linux distribution

Red Hat's quality-focused development model, tight working relationship with the open source community, and global 24x7 support infrastructure provides a Linux solution that enterprises can trust.

Red Hat is the market leader.

Market research shows that Red Hat holds more than 80% of the worldwide Linux market for the enterprise. (Source: IDC). This allows Red Hat to build the largest ecosystem of certified software applications and hardware systems available for Linux.

Red Hat has built the largest ecosystem around Linux.

  • Red Hat's leadership has created a growing ecosystem of software applications and hardware systems--all certified, all supported.
  • Access to innovation--This ensures that the applications your customers need for their business are available, now and in the future. And that your customers are provided with the broadest hardware options.

Learn more

To take advantage of Red Hat's new marketing and renewal programs and sales enablement tools developed for our channel partners, enroll in the Red Hat Ready Business Partner program today. For more information on the Red Hat Ready Program, please email channelinfo@redhat.com.