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Patrick Corporation
Solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 3
One of Australia's largest transportation companies, Patrick Corporation
has utilized Red Hat Enterprise Linux to increase efficiency and lower
costs.
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Kingfisher
Solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
With 331 B&Q stores and brands such as Trade Depot and Screwfix Direct in the UK, 102 Castorama and 73 Brico Dépôt stores in France, 26 Castorama stores in Italy, 30 in Poland, 7 Brico Dépôt stores in Spain, and two in Russia, the British Kingfisher Group is the European leader in the home improvement and DIY market. The Kingfisher Group is also present in Turkey with the Koçta stores and in Asia with B&Q China, B&Q Taiwan and B&Q Korea, and has a major stake in Hornbach, the German leader in DIY Retail. The Kingfisher Group is the world's third-largest retailer in the DIY sector.
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Corporate Express
Corporate Express offers highly specialised expertise and tailored advice to streamline procurement needs for around 110,000 active business customers. It caters for every aspect of a business with IT solutions, print services, promotional marketing, business furniture, facilities supplies, catering and kitchen supplies and office essentials.
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Orbitz
With the introduction of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux product line, Orbitz saw additional possibilities and potential benefits from Linux. Red Hat Enterprise Linux offered more extensive support options with a longer lifecycle. And it boasted extensive third-party support by vendors Orbitz depended on, most notably BEA WebLogic. “When WebLogic showed strong support of the Enterprise Linux products, we knew that it was a logical move to make,” says Kieckhafer.
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Doubleclick
In the face of these high client expectations, DoubleClick needed an infrastructure that would be reliable, cost-effective and - most importantly - flexible. The company was interested in high-level support for its solutions and the ability to choose and easily switch hardware vendors in order to avoid lock-in. With Red Hat, DoubleClick found the flexibility it was looking for, and an opportunity for high-quality support.
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Loyalty Pacific
It was Red Hat’s strong consulting and support capabilities and timely release cycles for updates and security patches that particularly appealed to Loyalty Pacific and differentiated Red Hat from other Linux alternatives. Since implementing Red Hat Enterprise Linux, the company has also realised a number of other valuable benefits. “Red Hat Enterprise Linux comes with a good core set of applications that are very useful, and have enabled us to architect a load-balanced solution that provides us with 100 per cent uptime.”
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Olio Carli
The project analysis began in 2006 with the search for the application for address standardization and ended in the first quarter of 2007 with the deployment of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 in production. Five out of a team of eleven IT professionals worked on the project in two separate phases: an initial analysis phase aimed at selecting the product and communicating with the system users and a second programming phase which involved the Cobol development of the code that calls the Java product from the VSE.
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Swedish Railways
With Red Hat and JBoss solutions, the SJ AB Integration Platform has delivered increased ROI for the railway. Through its Tradera.com ticket-auction project, which took just four months to complete, SJ is now able to sell an extra 1,500 tickets per week. Previously, these tickets went unsold. “We saw the return on our investment very quickly, best measured in weeks rather than in months,” said Anders Nilsson, IT-Architect at Swedish Railways.
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Backcountry.com
When considering possible solutions, Backcountry. com focused on open source. The company hoped to employ a system that would facilitate management and foster innovations. But that solution would also have to provide the dependability necessary for a company that cannot afford to face glitches or downtime. With the Red Hat open source system, the company was able to find that successful solution.
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muvee
To fully optimize its resources and continue on its growth path, muvee chose to implement Red Hat Enterprise Linux. We decided to work with Red Hat because of its easy setup and widespread support. The system is simple to install, and Red Hat’s knowledge base is extensive, both on the Internet and on the company’s website, said Lo. Red Hat’s large user community ensures muvee easily finds answers to its questions and fixes to any issues it may encounter with the system. Red Hat’s partnership with Dell further reassured muvee. Both partners informed the company that it could call on them should any hardware compatibility issues arise.
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