Red Hat Enterprise Linux platform of choice for Lower Saxony IT centre

Red Hat Enterprise Linux platform of choice for Lower Saxony IT centre

Lower Saxony police force opts for vendor-independence and high performance
on 64-bit platform

Munich, Germany, xx June 2005 – Red Hat, Inc. (Nasdaq: RHAT), the world's
leading provider of open source solutions to the enterprise, today announced
that the Lower Saxony IT centre (Informatikzentrum Niedersachsen – IZN) has
deployed Red Hat Enterprise Linux as the platform to provide IT services for
the police force in Lower Saxony, in Germany. IZN is the main systems centre
for IT and communications in Lower Saxony, providing 11,000 employees with
access to the central case tracking system "Nivadis" at the central police
headquarters and its departments. The Java-based web application operates
entirely on Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

"The police force in Lower Saxony has decided in principle to base its IT
infrastructure on Linux. Using Red Hat Enterprise Linux on our servers offers
us not only high performance on a 64-bit platform but also, importantly,
efficient central management of the whole system,” explains Michael Breest,
head of department for client/server systems and processing at IZN. "Linux
has come a long way in recent years. We plan to use Red Hat Enterprise Linux
for other new areas in the future.  Red Hat Network makes managing and
expanding the system a lot easier." 

Nivadis was developed by the police in Lower Saxony in a joint IT project
with the management consultancy company Mummert Consulting at the Hanover
Police Office for Technology and Procurement. The system, programmed entirely
in Java, replaced more than 20 separate applications, which previously had to
be called up alongside the previous system, "Mikado", requiring intensive use
of resources. To access Nivadis, the clients use the Mozilla web browser. All
internal processes and database queries run centrally at IZN on 64-bit
servers using Red Hat Enterprise Linux. When software platforms for the new
Nivadis system were being evaluated, Red Hat Enterprise Linux performed
particularly well in comparison with Unix. 

In addition to the Nivadis project, IZN is setting up a central archive with
full-text search function for the Lower Saxony police and this has also been
installed on a Red Hat platform. There are currently a total of more than 80
servers at the IZN running various versions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (AS,
ES, WS); and they are all maintained and administered centrally by just three
members of staff, via a Red Hat Network Satellite Server.

"We are delighted with this partnership with the IZN", says Werner Knoblich,
Director of EMEA at Red Hat. "The selection of Red Hat Enterprise Linux by
IZN shows that our close cooperation with the community represents a superior
model for further development. Red Hat was the first provider able to support
the 64-bit platform. Since Red Hat also puts cooperation with the community
above just developing particular features, our customers avoid dependence on
one individual provider." 

For more information please visit http://www.europe.redhat.com. 

Leigh Day	                           Andi Lustak 
Red Hat, Inc.	                           AxiCom for Red Hat
(919)754-3700 ext. 44369       	+44 20 8392 4058
lday@redhat.com	                    andi.lustak@axicom.com 

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