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Overview Ranked consistently in the top tier of U.S. colleges and universities, Vanderbilt University is internationally known for its cutting edge technology and research programs coupled with the Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Vanderbilts challenge was to regain top notch performance. This was solved by Red Hat Enterprise Linux Academic Edition with Red Hat Network; Hardware: HP DL-series servers; Software: Oracle 9i Enterprise Database Server, Oracle 9i RAC, Oracle 10g RAC, Oracle 9i AS (J2EE), Blackboard Course Management System 6.1, Several custom-developed applications.

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Publisher	Red Hat	File Format	HTML
Date Published	May 2007
Format	Case Studies
Topics	Linux - Open Source, Linux Server OS

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