Red Hat Signs Major Marketing Agreement with SAIC

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Red Hat has announced it has signed a marketing agreement with Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC) to deliver Red Hat solutions to defense-related, federal government, and commercial markets. The agreement highlights Red Hat's open source solutions and SAIC's depth and breadth in providing design and implementation services across leading companies and governments worldwide, the firms said.

Under the terms of the agreement, the two organizations will use their respective expertise to collaborate in the development and delivery of reliable open source solutions to customers. This collaboration is expected to provide powerful, proven solutions for federal agencies looking to improve operational effectiveness and productivity.

Red Hat is the recognized leader in enterprise solutions that take full advantage of the quality and performance provided by the open source model. With Red Hat, enterprise hardware and software vendors have a standard platform on which to certify their technology, assuring the necessary scalability and security of open source software and enabling mission-critical Linux deployments.

Red Hat's open source solutions are designed to satisfy the government's demand for scalable, reliable, high-performance and secure commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) products, the company says. By deploying Red Hat Enterprise Linux, the government will receive cost-effective products and solutions that can integrate with or replace existing systems with increased effectiveness, the company says.

During the signing ceremony at SAIC's McLean, Va., facility, Steven D. Rizzi, SAIC vice president of operations for Advanced Information Technology, said, "This agreement will benefit not only Red Hat and SAIC, but also our customers. By pairing SAIC's expertise in systems integration, software development, database architecture and management of large, complex projects with Red Hat's global open source enterprise leadership, our customers can benefit from the move to flexible, cost-effective, robust and open IT infrastructures."

"The product capabilities of Red Hat combined with the demonstrated success of SAIC in the federal IT marketplace can enable federal agencies to rapidly move toward an open systems model, incorporating open source solutions to meet the complex system requirements of the U.S. military, intelligence community, homeland security and other federal agencies," said Paul Smith, Red Hat's vice president for government sales operations. "This new collaboration offers Red Hat's functionality, scalability, security and performance combined with SAIC's federal government expertise to meet many of the U.S. government's most pressing challenges."

About Red Hat

Red Hat, the world's leading open source solutions provider, is headquartered in Raleigh, NC, with over 50 satellite offices spanning the globe. CIOs have ranked Red Hat first for value in enterprise software for three consecutive years in the CIO Insight Magazine Vendor Value study. Red Hat provides high-quality, low-cost technology with its operating system platform, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, together with applications, management and Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) solutions, including the JBoss Enterprise Middleware Suite, according to the company. Red Hat also offers support, training, and consulting services to its customers worldwide.

Red Hat, a leading provider of open source solutions throughout the world, and an S&P 500 company, has its is headquarters in Raleigh, NC, with over 65 offices spanning the globe. CIOs ranked Red Hat as one of the top vendors delivering value in enterprise software for seven consecutive years in the a leading CIO magazine's vendor value survey. Red Hat provides high-quality, affordable technology with its operating system platform, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, together with virtualization, applications, management and services oriented architecture (SOA) solutions, including Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization and JBoss Enterprise Middleware. Red Hat also offers support, training and consulting services to its customers worldwide. Learn more at http://www.redhat.com. For more news, visit www.press.redhat.com. For more information about the partnership between Red Hat and SAP is available here http://www.redhat.com/solutions/sap.

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