Interactive Ideas to Recruit New Red Hat Resellers and Educate the Channel

London, September 17th 2007 - Leading Red Hat distributor Interactive Ideas has partnered with Red Hat following the recent launch of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 to recruit additional Red Hat Ready business partners and to educate the channel about the new opportunities presented by Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

The latest release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux includes Red Hat Global File System, Cluster Suite and Virtualisation. The combination of these features enables customers to lower the costs of managing servers, increases server utilisation and increasing the efficiency of servers by sharing workloads and network resources such as memory and storage. This enables administrators to increase service levels with lower costs. These are savings that today's competitive business environment demands organisations implement in order to maintain their competitive advantage. Organisations look to utilise solutions that are well supported, reliable and easy to understand and implement.

Red Hat and Interactive Ideas are recruiting new resellers to learn how the new features incorporated in Red Hat Enterprise Linux can solve real business problems and generate substantial cost savings for their clients. To help resellers, Interactive Ideas launched www.simplyredhat.com, a micorsite on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 that focuses on solving real-world business problems and on how to implement Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 at end-user organisations.

"Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 represents a significant step forward in delivering customer value. With the integration of features such as Virtualisation, partners can now offer a compelling Virtualisation strategy to their customers.” said Hitesh Patel, Business Partner Manager at Red Hat.

"An intrinsic aspect of this success will be the partner's level of understanding around the capabilities of the new technologies and its ability to articulate it effectively to its customers. Interactive Ideas had demonstrated value by its ability to clearly present the opportunities available through Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 from a general standpoint and also by focusing on the key benefits of the operating system from both a partner and customer perspective."

For more information on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, please call your Interactive Ideas account manager or visit www.simplyredhat.com