Red Hat and Agilysys Team Up For Enterprise Open Source

October 9th, 2006: Red Hat and Agilysys have paired up to push the merits of open source and collaborate on development.

Agilysys provides enterprise IT solutions, while Red Hat is the world’s leading provider of open source solutions to the enterprise. The two have signed an enterprise reseller agreement to deliver Red Hat solutions, saying that Red Hat's open source solutions and community combined with Agilysys’ consulting and services capabilities will provide customers with successful, cost-effective open source technology integrations in mission-critical environments.

"Today, customers are looking for comprehensive Linux solutions and the flexibility of an open source environment," says Dave Williams, vice president of marketing, Agilysys ESG. "Agilysys has a proven track record in the design and implementation of Linux solutions. We are pleased to partner with Red Hat and further enable our customers to achieve the value and high-performance associated with open source."

The two will also collaborate on the development and delivery of open source solutions.

"Agilysys has deep relationships with a wide variety of leading IT suppliers across a diverse group of industries, and we are excited to be a part of that portfolio," says Ed Boyajian, vice president of strategic alliances, Red Hat. "Together we look forward to helping even more enterprise customers implement flexible Red Hat solutions and to realize the value of robust performance, rock-solid reliability, and economic benefits that open source technology provides."

The partnership will no doubt propel open source solutions further up the food chain, giving enterprise customers more choice next to proprietary solutions.

The two also say that with Red Hat’s 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.

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