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We recently hosted our biggest event of the year, the 4th annual Red Hat Summit, which proved to be an extraordinary success! Check out the recorded presentations of influential speakers like John Halamka, CIO of Harvard Medical School and more.
We held our largest Government Breakfast yet, which featured presentations by Jim Whitehurst, Red Hat's President and CEO and Michael Howard, Expeditionary C4I Chief Engineer for SSCC, who discussed how the USMC achieved capability integration in a tactical SOA environment using JBoss solutions.
The Red Hat Innovation Awards recognize companies for their commitment to innovating and extending Red Hat technologies. This year, 2 out of the 6 nominations were from the government market namely IBM and Raytheon Company and Booz Allen Hamilton. Congratulations to IBM and Raytheon for winning 2008 Red Hat Innovator of the year for providing an industry standard real-time solution to the US Navy!
And lastly, be sure to read the exciting announcements we made around virtualization and the introduction Red Hat Enterprise IPA 1.0.
Respectfully,
Paul Smith, VP of Government Sales Operations
Open Source Computing: One Year in Review - Watch and Listen to Paul Smith and 3 CIOs who discuss the use of Open Source solutions in government, the benefits of open source approaches, best practices and the future growth with the federal government.
Congratulations to IBM and Raytheon for winning 2008 Red Hat Innovator of the year for providing an industry standard real-time solution to the US Navy! Read more...
The Superior Alternatives category recognizes the most successful migration from proprietary solutions to open source alternatives. Using Red Hat, Jboss, and MetaMatrix technologies, Booz Allen Hamilton provided a complete document management solution to the federal agency that delivered "10 pounds of capability in a two pound bag," said Christopher Dale, an associate at Booz Allen. Read the story.
Selected by an online voting community for use of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 to greatly reduce or eliminate system crashes, simplify a complicated operating environment and have minimal user disruption. Read more...
Hill Air Force Base consolidates on a Linux system that employs grid computing, and the improved network performance also improves aircraft maintenance. Featured in Government Computer News, read Order Out of Chaos
The FAA executed a major systems migration to Red Hat Enterprise Linux in one-third of the original scheduled time and with 30 percent more operational efficiency than the previous system. In addition, the FAA realized 50 percent savings. Read more...
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