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February 12, 2003 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Open source and Linux provider Red Hat Inc (RedHat.com) announced on Tuesday, at the E-Gov event in Washington DC, that its Red Hat Linux Advanced Server is the first Linux platform to achieve the Department of Defense’s Defense Information Systms Agency Common Operating Environment (COE)certification.
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COE is a DoD software security and interoperability specification, broadly recognized as a critical computing standard within the U.S. government. Red Hat Linux Advanced Server achieved the certification while running on IBM eServer xSeries 330.
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Red Hat CTO Michael Tiemann delivered a keynote at the E-Gov Web Enabled Government Conference, explaining the importance of architecture in government IT infrastructure and why COE compliance for Linux is a good example of a supportable open source technology foundation.
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“The fact that Red Hat was able to achieve COE compliance for Red Hat Linux Advanced Server expels yet another myth about the enterprise readiness of open source software,” said Tiemann “Red Hat Linux Advanced Server is a trusted platform for enterprise infrastructure and will now offer the same values to the government. The COE Program’s inclusion of LSB aligns with the platform standards accepted by the Linux community. This is also yet another demonstration of how Red Hat’s open source solution put the theory of open standards into practice.”
