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Red Hat Offers Gruner + Jahr Higher Performance at Lower Cost

Overview With a workforce of over 11,500 and revenue of more than 2.44 billion Euro in fiscal year 2004, Gruner + Jahr is Europe's largest magazine publishing house. Like most companies, Gruner + Jahr also faced the challenge of having to achieve ever greater performance with ever fewer resources. Attracted by the low-cost of Linux, they began experimenting with Linux for web servers in 2000. Now they are operating numerous business-critical applications on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, including e-procurement applications, SAP application servers, and database servers.

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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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Channel:
IT Director

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Channel:
IT Director

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Channel:
Operating Systems
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red hat

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Publisher:
ZDNet UK

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ntl:Telewest Business

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Publisher:
IBM

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Publisher:
IBM

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