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Leading stock exchange in the Gulf Cooperation Council region migrates from AIX and Windows to Red Hat Enterprise Linux to transform its world-class securities exchange

RALEIGH, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that the Qatar Exchange, the principal stock market of Qatar and one of the leading stock markets in the Gulf Cooperation Council region (GCC region), has migrated from IBM AIX and Microsoft Windows to Red Hat Enterprise Linux to provide a high-performance trading platform for investors in the Qatari market.

Qatar Exchange was established through a strategic partnership between Qatar Holding and NYSE Euronext on June 2009. Qatar Exchange offers investors the benefits of a world-class securities market and exchange operating sophisticated and state-of-the-art technology systems where speed and accuracy of transactions are key. To deliver this level of service to local and international investors in Qatar, companies and markets demanded a stable, scalable and high-performance, yet cost-effective, IT infrastructure to underpin mission-critical back-office applications and the core trading platform.

With reliable performance and security criteria in mind, Qatar Exchange’s team selected Red Hat as its trusted technology partner, building its mission-critical trading platform and back-office systems on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Network Satellite and Red Hat clustering technologies.

The migration of Qatar Exchange's mission-critical trading applications and databases from IBM AIX to Red Hat Enterprise Linux has since offered improved levels of operational flexibility. Red Hat's open source strategy has also offered Qatar Exchange a long-term infrastructure roadmap based on open source technologies, which offer robust security and ease of management. Red Hat Enterprise Linux was a logical fit as it not only met these criteria but is also the technology platform at NYSE Euronext, which helped to ease integration and enabled homogeneity across the exchanges' IT architectures.

“Qatar Exchange currently executes around 4,000 exchange transactions per day and 12,000 orders per day, making the trading platform a truly mission-critical application that needs to perform reliably under pressure,” said Jassim Bukashisha, IT director at Qatar Exchange. “Unplanned downtime is not an option, so we need to be confident that we have the right technology partner behind us. Red Hat provided us with an enterprise-class solution that is high in performance, incredibly robust and proven to be secure, all at an affordable price without any compromise on performance.”

Qatar Exchange selected Red Hat Enterprise Linux to run its trading applications, while utilizing Red Hat Network Satellite for system updates and Red Hat clustering for maximizing uptime for this vital transaction platform. In addition to Red Hat, the trading platform ecosystem integrates Oracle to run the trading databases and Tomcat for web user interfaces. The system runs on HP - DL 380 rack-mounted servers running Intel x86 CPUs, while providing storage by HP - EVA 4400 and SAN switches by Brocade. In addition, trading applications were provided by NYSE Euronext technologies and the system is equipped to run in-house developed applications.

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Customer: SFR

Industry: Telecommunications

Geography: France

Business Challenge: To replace an end-of-life proprietary system, IBM Websphere, with a standardized infrastructure; rewrite and deploy business critical applications by 2012, and reduce the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)

Solution: SFR selected JBoss Enterprise Application Platform to develop Java applications based on open source industry standards while remaining fully supported by a trusted partner

Software: Application servers: Solaris Sparc x86; Web servers: Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Oracle 10i

Hardware: 6 units HP DL580 G5 for customer service, 13 units HP DL 580 G5 for catalogue, and 4 units HP DL 580 G5 for order entry

Migration Path: Migrated from IBM Websphere and Oracle WebLogic

Benefits: SFR accelerated Java deployments compared to the previous Oracle WebLogic and IBM Websphere-based system. The quality of support has improved through shorter response times from the support teams.

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Customer: Lufthansa Cargo AG

Industry: Transport and logistics

Geography: Frankfurt, Germany

Business Challenge: To create a state-of-the-art middleware infrastructure for a global shipment status processing system based on industry-standard hardware, while ensuring maximum flexibility by integrating it with existing components, cost effectiveness, and scalability

Migration Path: Proprietary HP-UX operating system running on mainframe servers to JBoss Enterprise Application Platform and Red Hat Enterprise Linux running on industry-standard x86 servers

Solutions: JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, Red Hat Consulting, Oracle WebLogic (for database access), Oracle 10 Database

Hardware: HP Proliant Servers

Benefits: Gained flexibility and the ability to accommodate new customer requests; saved more than 50 percent by migrating to the new base installation; realised even further cost savings when scaling the platform further to meet market demand; avoided lock-in to proprietary software licensing, hardware, and programming languages

“With Red Hat's open source subscription model, we can scale up and down easily without worrying about price per CPU creating unexpected extra costs. By migrating our Shipment Status Processing installation to JBoss Enterprise Middleware, we have saved around fifty percent compared to competitive software license models.”
-- Antonio Mastrolorito, Chief IT Architect, Lufthansa Cargo AG

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Customer: Sparbank

Industry: Banking

Geography: Denmark

Business Challenge: For legal compliance reasons, SPARBANK must ensure high availabillity for mission-critical applications. The bank also required access to professional support and services for its application platform.

Solution: JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform, JBoss Enterprise Service Bus

Migration Path: JBoss.org community project to JBoss Enterprise Middleware

Benefits: Guaranteed high availability and greater flexibility of SPARBANK's mission-critical application platform

“Running mission-critical applications in a bank requires a supported platform. Red Hat's JBoss Enterprise Middleware suite offers access to a complete set of services, including industry-leading technical support, certified patches and updates, long-term maintenance policies, and software assurance. Therefore it was a natural choice to migrate from the unsupported JBoss Community project to the JBoss Enterprise Middleware Platform.”
-- Kenneth Larsen, development team at SPARBANK

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Customer: King's College London

Industry: Education

Geography: United Kingdom

Red Hat Advanced Business Partner: Tier 2 Consulting

Business Challenge: To provide online learning materials and assessment tools virtually to dental students through a flexible, secure and cost-effective technology infrastructure with optimal functionality

Migration Path: The application was developed from the ground up using JBoss

Solution: The IVIDENT project (International Virtual Dental School, now known as UDENTE - Universal Dental E-Learning http://www.udente.org) is a flexible learning platform (FLP), conceived to deliver quality assured content and web-based education tools to dental students. The platform is built on Red Hat's open source middleware portfolio including: JBoss Enterprise Application Platform and JBoss Developer Studio

Software: JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, JBoss Developer Studio, JBoss Seam, JBoss Hibernate, and jBPM

Hardware: Dell Poweredge 1435 and 2x Dual Core AMD

Benefits: To create an award-winning virtual experience for students, to improve the educational experience for both students and tutors, potentially improve ROI while reducing costs, to increase flexibility, interoperability and ease of maintenance.

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Customer: NH Hotels

Industry: Travel and tourism

Geography: Spain/International

Business Challenge: To reduce operational and maintenance costs by standardizing and automating the server ecosystem to manage hotel operations across all sites

Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Network Satellite, Red Hat Consulting

Hardware: Heterogeneous hardware by different manufacturers

Benefits: Standardization and homogenization of IT infrastructure for greater control over an entire server estate; Efficient management with greater flexibility and scalability; Reduction in support and maintenance costs; Simplification

“ We are more than satisfied with the quality of solutions and services provided by Red Hat. The complex nature of this project suggested that the implementation would be complicated. However, thanks to the help and support of Red Hat, we were able to complete the project quickly and effectively.”
-- Julio Matarranz, Head of Corporate IT, NH Hotels

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Customer: Telecinco

Industry: Broadcast Media

Geography: Spain

Business Challenge: To update and consolidate the entire corporate IT infrastructure, including business-critical applications and management tools

Solution: Telecinco refreshed its hardware and software infrastructure based on a combination of solutions from Red Hat, HP, and NetApp, as well as other IT solutions certified by Red Hat and integrated by Telefónica

Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, Red Hat Network Satellite, JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, JBoss Operations Network, Oracle 10g, Oracle 11g, Informix Dynamic Server 11, and NetApp Snapmanager

Hardware: HP Poliant DL580 G5 servers and Blade servers

Migration path: Sun Solaris to Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Sun One Application Server to JBoss Enterprise Application Platform

Benefits: Telecinco benefits from a high-performance, highly reliable, flexible platform based on industry standards and has reduced its operating costs by 33 percent

“Our decision to migrate to Red Hat solutions has been one of the best technology decisions in recent years. The project is aligned with a wider company strategy and has put us ahead of development in the market.”
-- María Caldés, Director of Engineering and Systems, Telecinco

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Customer: Siemens AG (Industry, Mobility, Infrastructure Logistics, Postal Solutions)

Industry: Logistics

Geography: HQ: Germany

Business Challenge: Create a new, highly scalable, and reliable software platform for automated address recognition, coding, and image management capable of handling hundreds of thousands of mail pieces per hour

Solution: Infrastructure Logistics' Open Reading Coding Architecture (ORCA) relies on JBoss Enterprise Application Platform as its middleware foundation, orchestrating the recognition and coding of addresses and workflow of up to 700,000 mail pieces per hour by a single image management system with an availability rate of up to 99.8 percent.

Software: JBoss Enterprise Application Platform

Hardware: Standard x86 hardware

Benefits: Improved scalability, availability, and performance, combined with cost savings

“Wherever you live, it is likely that several letters that you have received have been read, coded, and processed for delivery by one of our systems using JBoss Enterprise Application Platform as the middleware foundation.”
-- Peter Schindler, Product Manager, Infrastructure Logistics, Postal Solutions

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Customer: Seedco (www.seedco.org)

Industry: Philanthropy, not-for-profit organizations

Geography: New York

Business Challenge: An aging, inflexible legacy system could no longer support Seedco's highly successful EarnBenefits program that helps low-income workers access a range of public and private benefits and work supports.

Solution: A web-based application built using JBoss Enterprise Middleware running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Software: JBoss Enterprise Middleware, JBoss Enterprise Business Rules Management System, Hibernate Framework, JBoss Seam Framework and Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Hardware: Industry-standard Intel-based x86 servers

Benefits: The new application allowed Seedco to streamline the process of determining eligibility and accelerate access to benefits by qualified individuals. The solution also contributed to the organization's bottom line, as other non-profit organizations are licensing the software solution to use in their own benefits programs.

“JBoss Enterprise Middleware is an extremely sophisticated technology that can be used to address almost every kind of enterprise problem. I really don't see any other offering that competes with it.”
-- Jake Kirby, Vice President of Information Technology, Seedco

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Customer: Landesbetrieb für Statistik und Kommunikationstechnologie Niedersachsen (LSKN)

Industry: Public Sector

Geography: Germany

Business Challenge: Needed a high-availability platform for the Lower Saxony Police to use as the infrastructure for its web-based case and operations processing application, Nivadis, while keeping operational and maintenance costs at a minimum

Solution: LSKN implemented Red Hat solutions to serve as the infrastructure for its mission-critical, web-based case and operations processing application, Nivadis

Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Directory Server, Red Hat Network Satellite, Red Hat Consulting, BEA WebLogic

Hardware: HP ProLiant DL360 servers with standard x86 processors

Migration Path: Siemens-Fujitsu BS2000/OSD to Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Benefits: Eliminated vendor lock-in; Increased scalability, availability, and performance; Achieved cost savings in operations, support, and licensing fees; Gained the ability to meet and exceed national regulations and requirements; Increased system security; Simplified management of systems

“Our main concerns are absolute reliability and cost effectiveness throughout the entire lifecycle of our server-based applications. Our decision to deploy Red Hat Enterprise Linux has proven to be one of the best we have made in recent years.”
-- Dieter Meyer, Head of UNIX-Service-Center, LSKN

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