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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 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. Show more

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.