Red Hat Lands Big Customers

"Red Hat is continuing to land big, fat contracts for its Red Hat Enterprise Linux server. This week saw major deals with the French Ministry for Education and the Swedish Association of the Pharmaceutical Industry.

"In the first deal, the French Ministry for Education migrated 2,500 servers across its 30 local education authorities to RHEL. This decision was in line with the Ministry's strategy to invest in open-source solutions to free itself from proprietary software and vendor lock-in..."

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