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Value You Can Plan On

Leave things better than you found them.

The most expensive choices are the ones that require constant servicing, don't scale and quickly become fragile and out-dated. And the worst of those are the ones that you are stuck with for a long time. The purchasing department will always want the acquisition cost to be low, but you know that's just the starting point. The true cost of any platform the is the internal resources used to migrate, integrate, manage and maintain it over time. Your true return is not determined by the current project, but in the flexibility of the platform for the next project -- and the ability to grow for and accommodate the many projects yet to come.

Red Hat is not a typical software company. We are a key catalyst and driver in the worldwide cooperative development of open source enterprise software on behalf of our customers. We help drive hardware evolution and technology innovation because we can bring together the most useful open source community projects into a tested, secure, stable, and usable form that enterprises can deploy for mission-critical workloads, and count on over the long term. We coordinate and guide the work of our customers, partners and a global community of developers to provide a robust platform that include relevant features that enterprises need (and for which many pay a premium.)

We believe in open standards and a modular, extensible approach to architecture that increases the flexibility of infrastructure and empowers users. Our unique business and development models provide the freedom to develop and deploy based upon your business needs, not ours.

A Red Hat subscription is more than support. Red Hat delivers reliable, scalable, flexible software that yields a consistent, positive ROI over the long haul. Our global organization stands behind our solutions with world-class training, customer support and unprecedented access to our engineering luminaries. In effect, Red Hat can function as an extension of your IT department.

That involvement is not just our goal, it's our actual value. We prove it every day. That relationship of access, influence and visibility is what scores of very satisfied customers pay for every year. Just ask the IT pros who have ranked Red Hat the #1 software vendor five of the past six years in CIO Insight's Vendor Value survey.

It is a legacy to be proud of, and we want to share it with you.

The cure for red ink

Choosing Red Hat can immediately lower the bottom line on a given project, with generally lower costs than our proprietary, closed-source competitors. This is true of our core products and the broad portfolio of integrated packages that are included, packages that our competitors usually offer as premium add-ons. And, as you expand your use of the open-source stack to include virtualization, security, high-availability, open-source databases and middleware, the value of your Red Hat portfolio increases.

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Red Hat subscriptions are simple, predictable and flexible

Red Hat subscription costs are predictable. There are no additional charges for support, maintenance, upgrades or downgrades. A Red Hat software subscription provides access to innovations, performance enhancements and features as soon as they become enterprise-ready, not when we decide we want to charge you more. You can control when and how you upgrade your infrastructure, without having to adhere to our release schedule, and you will always know you are getting the most from your hardware, because we'll never force you to load up on mandatory upgrades and features you don't really need.

Red Hat subscriptions are flexible enough to complement your agile IT operations. There are several options for virtual and physical system deployments and the ability to migrate subscriptions to a Red Hat Certified Cloud provider. A Red Hat subscription enhances your flexibility, so you can optimize as your business and the IT industry evolve.

Less busy work. More business work.

The majority of every IT budget is spent on maintenance of existing systems, not innovation. To make any real progress, you need strategies, tools and processes that reduce the effort of patching, managing, deploying and auditing your systems. It is widely acknowledged that Red Hat's software is reliable, high-performing and secure. It also happens to be an extremely flexible infrastructure where adding systems doesn't mean increasing complexity.

Red Hat's products are developed to be modular, with the ability to scale up or scale out with equal ease. Tailoring your infrastructure platforms for your application needs yields multiple benefits including reduced security risk (and less time patching), consistent provisioning, and it also eliminates unnecessary steps to maintain "gold disk images."

The most valuable asset of any IT department is the people within it. Make the most of their time by making Red Hat's portfolio the standard for your infrastructure.

Get ahead of your future

Complexity can seem like an unavoidable byproduct of a modern, interconnected, data-rich enterprise. Your next IT project is likely to include elements from several internal organizations, outside partners, Clouds and the latest social media craze.

Making the Red Hat portfolio the foundation for all your projects leaves you prepared for whatever comes next. With an upstream Open Source innovation community numbering in the hundreds of thousands, Red Hat provides the foundations so you can focus on your business problems and the value of integration. Our upstream partners include our customers, independent developers as well as strategic relationships with industry leaders.

As you make your plans to use the latest hardware innovations, integrate Open Social or move to the Cloud, choose a truly innovative partner for your next project. No other software vendor better understands how to harness the power of massive collaboration to untangle complexity, and with us, you get a chance to build a future you can live with.

Don't take our word for it

Our customers like Red Hat. They like our technology and the way we do business. They enjoy working with us, and they aren't shy about speaking up on our behalf. At Red Hat we take great pride in our continued customer and industry recognition. Apparently, customers like it when you do what you say you're going to do and deliver on expectations. And by most measures, Red Hat regularly exceeds our customers' expectations.

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