Fujitsu and Red Hat Enter into Global Partnership to Offer Mission-Critical Linux Solutions.Business Editors TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 8, 2003 Strategic Collaboration to Enhance Red Hat Enterprise Linux Solutions for Fujitsu's Intel-Based Linux Servers Fujitsu Limited (TSE See Tokyo Stock Exchange. TSE 1. See Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE). 2. See Toronto Stock Exchange (TSE). : 6702) and Red Hat (Nasdaq: RHAT RHAT Red Hat (stock symbol) RHAT Rainwater Harvesting Association of Tanzania RHAT Register Hba Attributes ) today announced that they have signed a global partnership agreement to technically enhance and market Red Hat Enterprise Linux Red Hat Enterprise Linux (often abbreviated to RHEL) is a Linux distribution produced by Red Hat and targeted toward the commercial market, including mainframes. Red Hat commits to supporting each version of RHEL for 7 years after its release. solutions for enterprise customers running mission-critical applications on Fujitsu's Intel-based servers powered by Intel(R) Xeon(TM) and Itanium(R) processors. The agreement significantly expands the scope of the companies' cooperative relationship to date. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the terms of the agreement, Fujitsu and its principal subsidiaries and affiliates, including Fujitsu Siemens Computers Fujitsu Siemens Computers is a Japanese and German IT vendor, selling consumer and business computing products in the markets of Europe, the Middle East and Africa (products marketed elsewhere are sold under the Fujitsu brand). , become Premier partners for the fulfillment and service of the complete Red Hat Enterprise Linux line of solutions on Fujitsu's Intel-based PRIMERGY servers worldwide. The parties will collaborate in software development, marketing, sales, delivery, and support efforts to optimize Red Hat Enterprise Linux for mission-critical use on Fujitsu hardware. Fujitsu also plans to work to ensure that all its enterprise applications are compatible with the Red Hat Enterprise Linux platform, so that customers will have the benefit of running a fully integrated solution from Red Hat and Fujitsu. In addition, as part of their partnership, Fujitsu and Red Hat will create joint engineering teams at various Red Hat locations who will work together to reinforce mission-critical features and functionality of Linux for enterprise systems. Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS was first in Red Hat's line of enterprise solutions. Released in May of 2002, Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS has been widely adopted in mission-critical infrastructure. Quarter over quarter sales of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS increased by 38% in Red Hat's fiscal fourth quarter, which ended February 28, 2003. Recently Red Hat introduced Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES and WS for use on departmental servers and technical workstations. "Fujitsu is recognized as a global technology leader in the enterprise market," said Kevin Thompson Kevin Thompson may refer to:
Fujitsu, a global leader in large-scale, mission-critical computing platforms See platform. , has been offering Red Hat Linux Red Hat Linux, assembled by Red Hat, was a popular, "middle-aged" Linux distribution (not as old as Slackware but older than Ubuntu) upon its discontinuation in 2004.[1] Red Hat Linux 1.0 was released on November 3, 1994. solutions worldwide on its Intel-based PRIMERGY servers since March 2001. Leveraging its expanded collaboration with Red Hat, Fujitsu plans to make enhanced Red Hat Enterprise Linux solutions available on its high-end Intel Xeon and Itanium processor family-based Linux servers currently under development. "The global partnership we are announcing today marks not only a significant milestone in our growing relationship with Red Hat but also an important step in the development of our high-end Linux solutions," said Akira Yamanaka, group senior vice president, Enterprise Systems Group, Fujitsu Limited. "Through this expanded collaboration with Red Hat, Fujitsu will be able to provide customers worldwide with the most advanced mission-critical Linux computing solutions." "Today's announcement boosts Intel and Fujitsu's joint effort to develop new mainframe-class Intel-based Linux servers," said Mike Fister, senior vice president and general manager, Intel Enterprise Platforms Group. "The partnership between Fujitsu and Red Hat will benefit Linux customers with enhanced reliability, functionality and performance for mission-critical Intel Xeon and Itanium-based servers." "Oracle is seeing Linux become increasingly important in enterprise data centers, and the strategic partnership between Fujitsu and Red Hat brings an expansion of Linux offerings to customers worldwide," said Dave Dargo, vice president, Linux Program Office at Oracle Corp. "Oracle's products already support Fujitsu's high-performance and high-reliability server business on a global basis and we look forward to working with Fujitsu to promote Oracle9i Real Application Clusters as a key technology for delivering mission-critical systems on Linux." "VERITAS, Fujitsu, and Red Hat's missions are to provide customers with best of breed solutions for enterprise computing Refers to information technology in the larger company. See enterprise data and enterprise networking. ," said Kevin Reinis, vice president of business development and strategic alliances, VERITAS Software Veritas Software Corp. was an international software company that was founded in 1983 as Tolerant Systems, renamed Veritas Software Corp. in 1989, and merged with Symantec in 2005. It was headquartered in Mountain View, California. . "VERITAS high availability Also called "RAS" (reliability, availability, serviceability) or "fault resilient," it refers to a multiprocessing system that can quickly recover from a failure. There may be a minute or two of downtime while one system switches over to another, but processing will continue. , data protection, and storage management products, running on Red Hat Linux, combined with Fujitsu's high-performance servers provide our customers with a robust, interoperable The ability for one system to communicate or work with another. See interoperability. Linux platform for their most demanding enterprise applications." About Fujitsu Fujitsu is a leading provider of customer-focused IT and communications solutions for the global marketplace. Pace-setting technologies, highly reliable computing and telecommunications platforms, and a worldwide corps of systems and services experts uniquely position Fujitsu to deliver comprehensive solutions that open up infinite possibilities for its customers' success. Headquartered in Tokyo, Fujitsu Limited (TSE:6702) reported consolidated revenues of 4.6 trillion yen (US$38 billion) for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2003. For more information, please see: www.fujitsu.com About Red Hat Red Hat is the world's premier open source and Linux provider. Red Hat is headquartered in Raleigh, N.C. and has offices worldwide. For more information visit www.redhat.com. Forward-Looking Statements forward-looking statement A projected financial statement based on management expectations. A forward-looking statement involves risks with regard to the accuracy of assumptions underlying the projections. Forward-looking statements in this press release are made pursuant to the safe harbor Safe Harbor 1. A legal provision to reduce or eliminate liability as long as good faith is demonstrated. 2. A form of shark repellent implemented by a target company acquiring a business that is so poorly regulated that the target itself is less attractive. provisions of Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Investors are cautioned that statements in this press release that are not strictly historical statements, including, without limitation, management's plans and objectives for future operations, and management's assessment of market factors, constitute forward-looking statements which involve risks and uncertainties. These risks and uncertainties include, without limitation, reliance upon strategic relationships, management of growth, the possibility of undetected software errors, the risks of economic downturns generally, and in Red Hat's industry specifically, the risks associated with competition and competitive pricing pressures, the viability of the Internet, and other risks detailed in Red Hat's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, copies of which may be accessed through the SEC's Web site at http://www.sec.gov. LINUX is a trademark of Linus Torvalds Linus Benedict Torvalds (born December 28 1969 in Helsinki, Finland) is a Finnish software engineer best known for initiating the development of the Linux kernel. . RED HAT is a registered trademark of Red Hat, Inc. All other names and trademarks are the property of their respective owners. |
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