Red Hat Inc. , a distributor of the open-source Linux computer operating system, on Tuesday unveiled a powerful new server product aimed squarely at the large enterprises that the company sees as its market sweet spot.
Raleigh, North Carolina-based Red Hat is hoping its new Advanced Server will offer enough computing power to convince more large companies to switch their corporate networks to Linux.
As so-called open-source software, Linux is freely available and can be modified by users, unlike proprietary operating systems like Microsoft's Windows or various versions of the UNIX platform, such as Solaris by Sun Microsystems.
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