Red Hat Enterprise Linux Academic Site Subscription

Colleges, universities and academic institutions face unique challenges. Whether committing to student success, researching solutions to society’s top issues or maintaining a healthy population, higher education is a market like no other. Red Hat® academic offerings were created to help educational institutions expand their IT infrastructure while avoiding vendor-lock in, reducing costs, and creating scalable and sustainable IT environments.

Red Hat products and solutions are ready-made for institutions of higher learning to:

• Run enterprise applications, such as learning management and student information systems, on an open, security-focused foundation.
• Rapidly modernize legacy education and operational applications with developer toolkits and container platforms.
• Achieve unified management of traditional, virtualized environments and cloud- based infrastructure.
• Improve interoperability with other technology vendors.
• Build public, private, and hybrid cloud environments.

Whether in an administrative, educational, or research-oriented capacity, Red Hat provides various software, products and services to educational institutions interested in using commercially supported open source technologies.

The Red Hat Enterprise Linux® Academic Site Subscription provides single campus access to these major Red Hat enterprise products:

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server, Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation, Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop, Red Hat Enterprise Linux Extended Update Support Add-On
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for High-Performance Computing
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM Power Little Endian
• Red Hat Developer Toolset
• Red Hat Software Collections

A site subscription may be used by faculty, staff, and students in both nonproduction and production environments within the institution.

Red Hat academic offerings ensure you get more IT for your money by offering campus-wide subscriptions across all departments based on full-time equivalent (FTE) employees. FTEs are calculated as follows:

• All full-time faculty and staff are considered one unit.
• Part-time staff are considered a half of a unit.
• Part-time faculty are considered a third of a unit.

For example: If you have 2,000 full-time faculty, 1,500 part-time faculty, 1,000 full-time staff, and 500 part-time staff, the FTE units are calculated as 2,000 + (1500 ÷ 3) + 1,000 + (500 ÷ 2) = 3,750 FTE units.

Table 1. Solution offerings

Red Hat academic offerings are intended to support education initiatives in the academic community at an affordable price.

• In the United States, these academic offerings are only available to accredited institutions recognized by the U.S. Department of Education. Subscription pricing is available to valid institutions and users (i.e., teachers, students, staff, and researchers) affiliated with the institution.
• An educational institution is an organization, such as a primary or secondary school, college or university that has a regularly scheduled curriculum, a regular faculty, and a regularly enrolled student body in attendance at a place where educational activities are regularly carried out.
• Federally Funded Research and Development Centers (FFRDCs) operated by an academic institution do not qualify for academic subscriptions.
• Hospitals and healthcare systems are not eligible to acquire academic subscriptions unless a qualified educational institution wholly owns and operates them or they have established academic accreditation.
• Red Hat Academic Site Subscription is only made available to support the FTE and constituency of the purchasing college or university and is not to be used in support of outside entities.
• Verification of eligibility based on accreditation status can be determined at http://ope.ed.gov/accreditation/Search.aspx.

For any subscription or compliance related questions, please contact your Red Hat account manager or your authorized Red Hat partner.