City's IT System Benefits from Stability, Compatibility and Cost
Reduction with Red Hat and JBoss Solutions
RALEIGH, N.C --Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source
solutions, today announced that the City of Recife's Computer Technology
Organization (Emprel) in the state of Pernambuco, Brazil is experiencing
long-term success with Red Hat solutions. Emprel first selected Red Hat
Linux in 1998, has since migrated to Red Hat Enterprise Linux for its
critical applications and currently utilizes the full suite of Red Hat
solutions.
Before migrating to open source solutions in 1994, Emprel was struggling
with several problems in its proprietary-based IT infrastructure. It was
experiencing operating system instability and budget limitations with
its legacy software. It turned to open source to find a reliable, stable
and cost-effective solution. Over time and after exploration of various
open source solutions, it selected and deployed Red Hat Linux in 1998.
With Red Hat Linux, Emprel was able to make its processing solutions
available online, allowing the organization to take the municipal tax
and urban planning systems to the city's service centers. Then, the
company updated and developed its tax, planning, health, education,
budget, financial and shopping port software.
In 2002 Emprel upgraded its real estate and commercial records and
implemented them on the Red Hat Linux platform. “Updating
our records was a big challenge for us because these involve highly
critical and complex systems which had been running on mainframes since
day one,” said Luís
Siqueria, IT infrastructure director at Emprel. “But
since we were finding success with Red Hat solutions already, and
because we have always pioneered innovation, we decided to install Red
Hat Linux on our mainframe. That was a deciding step toward the
consolidation of Emprel's open source software strategy.”
Today, most of the company's critical services have been migrated to Red
Hat Enterprise Linux. Its IT infrastructure comprises databases
including DB2, Oracle, PostgreSQL and MySQL. Its application servers
include JBoss Application Server and WebSphere and it utilizes an Apache
webserver and firewalls. Of Emprel's 60 servers, 50 currently run on Red
Hat solutions.
Since implementing Red Hat solutions, Emprel has enjoyed an extremely
stable platform, compatibility with other commercial software versions
and cost reduction for its management of over 2,000 machines. “The
adoption of Red Hat solutions allows us to ensure compatibility and the
knowledge that we can install its solutions without concern.
Additionally, we didn't have to use Red Hat support, which in our
opinion is an excellent sign of stability and reliability,”
said Siqueria. “This allows our tasks to be
executed without interruption – the goal of
any data processing center working 24x7.”
“We're thrilled to see that Emprel has found
such long-term success with Red Hat and JBoss solutions,”
said Paul Cormier, executive vice president of engineering at Red Hat. “Emprel's
use of Red Hat solutions since 1998, in addition to its migration to Red
Hat Enterprise Linux for its mainframes and critical applications, is a
testament to the reliability and effectiveness of our solutions.”
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