Solnet becomes the first local certified JBoss partner

Press Release

Red Hat and Solnet help New Zealand businesses carve out costs

Wellington, NZ – 3 November 2009 – Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that Solnet Solutions (Solnet) has become a Red Hat Advanced Business Partner and JBoss Certified Partner.  Solnet Solutions is a kiwi company in the business of developing, integrating and supporting business solutions built on scalable, highly available and reliable platforms.

“Appropriate leverage of open source offers considerable benefits to clients including lower cost of ownership, flexibility and speed of innovation. Users and analysts alike attest to the commercial maturity of commercial open source software. We are delighted to be advancing our long standing relationship with Red Hat,” said Mark Botherway, Managing Director, Solnet.

“Never before has the case for commercial open source software been so compelling. It must be seriously considered as an integral part of any enterprise roadmap,” he added.

Solnet has an outstanding track record of delivering enterprise solutions comprising Open Source, including Red Hat and JBoss. Solnet’s experience is complemented by appropriately trained and qualified experts.

“The addition of Solnet to the Red Hat Advanced Business Partner programme further broadens Red Hat’s presence in the competitive New Zealand market,” said Max McLaren, Managing Director for Red Hat Australia and New Zealand.

“Solnet is also our first certified JBoss partner in the region and with increasing demand for JBoss Enterprise Middleware solutions, particularly as organisations look for ways to carve costs out of IT infrastructures, we now have a certified partner to help us address our clients’ needs.”

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