March 1, 2005 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Web hosting provider The Planet Internet Services (theplanet.com) said on Monday that it is the first Web host to offer Red Hat (redhat.com) Enterprise Linux 4. The company says the new platform will provide enterprise customers with higher security and performance benefits, in addition to the cost benefits of open source solutions.
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“We are excited to be supporting this new version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, a milestone for the entire computing industry,” says Yul Shelton, director of managed services at The Planet. “Red Hat Enterprise Linux has long provided reliability on par with proprietary operating systems. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 takes that even further with revolutionary performance, scalability and security advancements.”
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 was released in mid-February. The latest version of RHEL, Red Hat says, was designed with a focus on Linux kernel 2.6-based platform stability and maturity, productivity improvements, technology to meet security and compliance demands, and performance and stability for 32-bit and 64-bit workloads.
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Shelton says that customers who want to migrate from older versions of RHEL will receive fresh installations, rather than upgrades of existing software.
