Red Hat recently stated that members of its solution providers community, Red Hat’s independent software vendors (ISVs) have begun testing of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Beta 2 in order to help Red Hat achieve its next subscription goals.  Solution providers hope to ensure early certification of the new program and make Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 avaiable this winter for customers.

The ISV community has been instrumental in Red Hat’s success, particularly during the past 5 years, according to Tim Yeaton, Senior VP of Enterprise Solutions, Red Hat.  He hopes that with the help of the ISV and solution providers community the company can continue to increase the scope of applications available to customers.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 is set to be released early in 2007 and marks the next big subscription endeavor for the company.  Working with solution providers, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 will provide complete, full-integrated commercial-strength virtualization.

Red Hat’s ISV Partner Program has been attracting solution providers that support the Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system.  The goal of this program for solution providers has been to provide great choices for customers building their architectures based on open source.  Solution providers partners include IBM, Oracle, Computer Associates and BEA Systems.

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