Success stories: 'Red Hat Desktop' category

Airport migrates servers and desktops to Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Cluster Suite and Red Hat Network

Raleigh, NC – August 6, 2008 – Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that Munich Airport, recognized for three consecutive years as Europe’s “Airport of the Year” by air transport research company Skytrax, has migrated a large portion of its UNIX servers and desktops to Red Hat Enterprise Linux. The Airport has since realized heightened performance, cost savings and reliable support.

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Industry: Transportation

Geography: Australia

Business Challenge: To support
Europcar’s business objectives by delivering a robust technology platform to improve productivity and reduce costs

Migration Path: Intel-based variant of Unix to Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Solution:
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
Hardware: 2 x HP BL45P blades

Benefits: Experienced decreased TCO and increased ROI, reliability, stability, performance, flexibility, scalability, and ease of management

“Europcar customers know that the car they reserve is the car they will get because they interface directly with our core reservations system. With the performance and reliability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, we’re given the security and reliability that keeps our customers happy.” – Scott Allen, CIO at Europcar Asia Pacific

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Also: See how Red Hat drives desktop cost savings for Europcar.

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Industry: Transport

Geography: Australia

Business Challenge: To support Europcar’s focus on customer service by delivering a desktop solution that could affordably meet a range of user requirements

Migration Path: Windows to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Desktop

Solution:

Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Desktop, customised TelNet booking application

Benefits: Experienced decreased TCO and increased ROI, performance, flexibility, and ease of management

“Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Desktop immediately solved our licensing issues and certainly decreased our licensing costs. It also met 100 percent of our users’ needs. In fact, the Red Hat desktop solution has enabled us to adopt a new hardware policy that ensures that we maximise our hardware ROI.”

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Industry: Financial Services, Insurance

Geography: Germany

Goal: Find a Linux-solution backed by enterprise-level support while retaining vendor-independence

Solution: Clients: Red Hat Desktop and IBM ThinkPad notebook computers.
Servers: Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Fujitsu Siemens, Sceneo & Futro hardware.
Systems Management: Red Hat Network

Benefits: Cost-effective client and server solution from a trusted vendor. Easy, quick deployment and on-going systems management. On-going confidence via Open Source Assurance program.
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