Red Hat, Inc. has further fueled its rapidly growing services business, by signing a deal with AutoZone to provide consulting and support services for Autozone's network of 3,000 Linux-based Intranet terminals spread across the country.

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Autozone, which sells auto and light truck parts and accessories through its 2,711 stores, made its decision based on the ability to easily customize Red Hat's Linux operating system to its operation as well as the technical support it would gain in building the necessary underpinnings that will support it.

"We saw Red Hat as the logical choice for our network because we needed a cost-effective and reliable operating system that can be customized,'' said Jon Bascom, Autozone's vice president of Customer Satisfaction. "As importantly, we needed to implement and maintain the new IT infrastructure we are putting in and we think Red Hat's support organization can help us realize the benefits we expect to get from Linux,'' he said.

Red Hat's on-site consulting services, staffed by 350 certified consultants, helps users with strategy formation, planning, evaluation, training, product implementation, recurring operations and audit. Enterprise-level accounts can choose any combination of services from just the initial installation of server and client software to ongoing outsourced management of an entire network.

Red Hat Inc., in Research Triangle Park, N.C., is at www.redhat.com/.