Orbitz: A Red Hat Customer Success Story
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Channel: Red Hat · 2009 · Science & Technology
Chris Hjelm, chief technology officer for Orbitz, talks about why the company is so impressed with the high-performance, low-cost capabilities of Linux. Pleased with their front-end Linux systems, Orbitz looked for other areas where they could leverage those strengths and benefits. The first place they looked was in the application layer. The low-cost travel and trip planner needed always-available systems, and their x86 platform-based infrastructure migrated from Sun Solaris to Red Hat Enterprise Linux, with price-performance-per-instance improvements of more than 75%. Hear from members of the engineering team about the process and timeline of their migration, and their experience working with Red Hat solutions and services. See more Red Hat customer success stories: http://www.redhat.com/videos/customers/
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