“Red Hat…and Hewlett-Packard…announced an alliance aimed
at expanding sales of their solutions in three ways:
— HP’s OpenMail(1), the industry’s leading business messaging
and collaboration system for Linux-based operating systems, will be
made available for direct purchase through Red Hat’s portal,
located at www.redhat.com/store. In doing so, the multitudes of
visitors to Red Hat’s portal site each month will be offered the
opportunity to easily empower their enterprise networks with the
leading Linux-based business messaging and collaboration
system.
— Red Hat has included a fully functional copy of OpenMail in
boxes of Red Hat 6.1 Professional. This version of OpenMail is
unrestricted for a limited number of users. This will allow
customers purchasing the Official Red Hat Linux distribution to
take advantage of OpenMail’s proven, robust, e-services(2)
technology.
— In addition to today’s agreement, Red Hat plans to recruit
and enroll several of HP’s key North American OpenMail value-added
resellers (VARs) into its recently enhanced Channels Program,
providing them with the training and support needed to deliver open
source solutions to enterprises and vertical markets.”