Rhces of the Year Honored at Red Hat Reception

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Winners of the 2009 Red Hat Certified to accelerate his career and sharpen his mance on his systems. RHCE provided a Linux, Red Hat Network Proxy and Satel- Engineer of the Year contest were lauded Linux skills. The company launched into solid knowledge foundation for his current lite servers and Red Hat Directory Server. last night by their RHCE peers at a special the web arena in 2007 and required a ro- day-to-day role and has opened doors to He is also one of the leading contributors reception. There are more than 40,000 bust infrastructure to be architected in a new development opportunities. to community Red Hat Enterprise Linux RHCE in 152 countries across the globe. three-month time period to meet business support in #rhel on freenode. As a result The five regional winners all demonstrated requirements such as reliability and scal- Sebastian Gonzalez, Latin America of Rose’s increased participation in the hard work, expertise and innovation utiliz- ability. As an RHCE, Chew had the neces- Gonzalez is an infrastructure specialist for Red Hat community, he became a contribu- ing RHCE skills to solve complex technical sary skills to deploy Red Hat Global File EDS, an HP company. He has utilized his tor to the Fedora Project and serves as the problems to deliver value to their compa- System and virtualization to meet muvee’s RHCE skills to successfully oversee the mi- Central United States Regional Ambassa- nies and institutions. business goals within a short timeframe gration of several environments running dor for Fedora. Congratulations to the 2009 RHCE of without him even needing to go onsite. on other operating systems to Red Hat Balaji Sirasani, India. Sirasani is a the Year winners! Enterprise Linux. Alex Davies, Europe. At 22 years senior quality assurance engineer at Com- Bernard Chew, Singapore. Chew old, Davies is the youngest IT engineer at John Rose, North America. Rose is puter Associates and manages a lab with currently serves as a network administra- PartyGaming, a leading online gaming com- a systems analyst at Iowa State University more than 150 machines. He has utilized tor with muvee Technologies Pte Ltd, a pany. He’s running large web and MySQL and was first inspired to become a RHCE his RHCE skills to easily set up Kickstart Singapore-based company that produces clusters around the globe, and his RHCE at the 2005 Red Hat Summit. Rose has with Red Hat Network, reducing the time automated video editing software. Achiev- training has allowed Davies to identify ways utilized his RHCE skills at Iowa State Uni- and effort it previously took to manually ing RHCE credentials has enabled Chew to improve uptime, scalability and perfor- versity working with Red Hat Enterprise install machines. IN CASE YOU MISSED IT... THE TIME FOR JBOSS IS NOW You don’t have to go far today to see evi- not only their application server needs, but dence that the weak economy is driving also for SOA, integration, rules manage- more enterprises to consider open source ment and portals. software for mission-critical use. Dozens of What’s driving this growth? First, its industry analysts’ reports all point to sur- Red Hat’s value proposition coupled with vey respondents acknowledging increases the economic conditions that have led to in open source adoption and plans for fu- success for open source solutions in the ture growth across their enterprises. marketplace. But almost equally as impor- Further, Red Hat’s strong Q1 2010 earn- tant is that customers are turning to open ings demonstrate that the value of open source middleware because it is an strate- source solutions are resonating in the mar- gic alternative to the few proprietary offer- ketplace. One of the factors contributing to ings in the market today. As the number of Red Hat’s growth is the momentum around middleware vendors shrinks and the mar- our middleware solutions. ket becomes more consolidated, customers It’s encouraging news, and just as Linux are looking for solutions that provide value exploded into the enterprise five years ago without vendor lock-in. Customers don’t with the introduction of Red Hat Enterprise want to have the entire IT organization Linux, now is the time for enterprises to controlled by one vendor, and open source adopt open source middleware for mission- middleware solutions like JBoss Enterprise critical applications. Middleware have filled this gap by provid- Recent conversations with customers ing a high-value, high-quality open source confirm many of the analyst reports and alternatives to proprietary middleware. what we are seeing in our growth numbers. 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The Tao of Teiid Beyond Rails with TorqueBox A Collaborative Platform for the How to Effectively Manage Java Applications 9:45 AM 9:45 AM Pharmaceutical Industry using JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform and Alfresco Scaling Clean Energy and Reducing Operations Using JBoss Enterprise Middleware in NAVTEQ Writing Telco 2.0 applications with JBoss SOA Based Application Architecture on Using JBoss jBPM and JBoss ESB to Build 11:00 AM 11:00 AM Costs with jBPM Communications Platform based on Mobicents JBoss Platform for Multiple Business Domains a Custom Multi-Tenant Plaform AGENDA AT A GLANCE

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