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Red Hat Expands Enterprise Solutions Portfolio, Enhances Advanced Server

Red Hat (Nasdaq: RHAT), says it has a new enterprise workstation offering that will be fully compatible with its Linux Advanced Server, which the company has recently enhanced.

The workstation offering will allow customers to deploy complete, enterprise-strength, client-server solutions that are built on the same underlying technology. These homogeneous environments result in reduced costs through faster deployments, common application support, and easier system administration.

Additionally, Red Hat's workstation release will deliver the enterprise-class environment for development of applications for deployment on Advanced Server, as well as design workstation use in the EDA (Electronic Design Automation) and DCC (Digital Content Creation) markets.

"The next natural step in completing our enterprise roadmap was to create a stable, high performance workstation solution to complement Red Hat Linux Advanced Server," Paul Cormier, Red Hat executive vice president of engineering, said in a statement. "With our workstation release, customers will be able to deploy client-server solutions that have been engineered from the ground up to work together."

Red Hat, which is based in Raleigh and was recently at the Enterprise Linux Forum Conference & Expo in Boston, also announced plans to extend support for carrier-grade Linux applications on its Linux Advanced Server.

These enhancements, targeted for use on Intel-based hardware platforms, will improve Advanced Server's ability to address the needs of telecommunications providers to develop and deploy new services as part of the transition to standards-based modular communications platforms.

Enhancements to Advanced Server will be made from recommendations advocated by the OSDL Carrier Grade Linux Working Group, a specification forum including Red Hat, Intel Corporation, IBM, HP and other industry leaders focused on positioning Linux-based software components as the basis for robust communications products.

The new features in Advanced Server will include improved application portability and performance, support for POSIX compliant threading, diskless blade systems, improved system responsiveness, advanced debugging and systems analysis, and additional high availability clustering capabilities.

Advanced Server will run on Intel-based servers and platforms, including those available from IBM and HP, as part of a carrier-grade modular architecture approach promoting interoperability for application-level solutions.

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