Red Hat (SIT Partner)

As a matter of principle, SIT has never recommended a specific hardware or operating system platform. We probably never will. However, we do want to alert our clients and prospective clients to the outstanding results that we’ve seen when using Red Hat Linux (on a high-end Dell server) with database and middleware applications. Again, we’re not in the business of recommending specific platforms, but we believe it is our responsibility to share our delightful surprise. In tests we've run, the performance has outranked servers costing ten times as much as the ones we've used.

Your experience may differ, of course. Also, performance is only one of the many factors that you should be incorporating into your choice of platform. There are other important factors, including: reliability, supportability, training requirements, relationship with your vendor, DRP capability, total cost of ownership, etc. These should not be discounted.

Red Hat Linux also requires more updates than alternative Unix servers, which is another "cost of ownership" item to be factored into your choice of platform.