Italian Court Selects Red Hat Solutions for Core IT Applications

Corte dei Conti Relies on Red Hat Enterprise Linux to Safeguard
Public Finance and Maintain Jurisdictional Order in Italy
RALEIGH, N.C.--(Business Wire)--Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source
solutions, today announced that Corte dei Conti, an Italian government
institution that safeguards public finance and guarantees the respect
of jurisdictional order in Italy, has selected Red Hat Enterprise
Linux for its server farm, consisting mainly of HP BL20 G3 and BL20 G2
blade servers. Corte dei Conti's Red Hat solution is integrated with
multiple different internal systems, including Oracle software largely
used in the Court's IT system.

Corte dei Conti pursues its roles of safeguarding public finance
and guaranteeing the respect of jurisdictional order through two
functions: the audit function and the jurisdictional function. It is
also responsible for the "a priori" audit of the legality of
Government acts and for the "a posteriori" audit of the State Budget's
management.

Corte dei Conti maintains an extensive number of Red Hat
Enterprise Linux-based servers that run many of the Court's most
critical systems and applications. These systems include SISP, an
integrated system for sections and proxy; SIRTEL, a digital reporting
system for local entities; a proxy farm based on Squid with three
balanced servers running Red Hat Enterprise Linux; an Oracle
Collaboration Suite for workgroup and email systems; and a database
farm and application server farm for centralization.

"We selected Red Hat Enterprise Linux because we wanted to combine
the flexibility ensured by open source with high-level services
delivered by a solid and reliable company with a strong local
presence," said Dott. Ing. Leandro Gelasi, Corte dei Conti -
U.R.S.I.A. - Area Sistemi, Network e Centro Unico dei Servizi (CUS).
"Red Hat solutions integrate perfectly with our existing Oracle
systems and guarantee performance and reliability without impacting
our bottom line."

"Being selected by Corte dei Conti confirms the value of our
strategy for public administration, investing in human and logistics
resources to better satisfy the specific requirements of this market
segment," said Gianni Anguilletti, country sales manager at Red Hat
Italy. "Our Red Hat Enterprise Linux platform again confirms its
ability to provide performance and reliability for systems that are
absolutely mission-critical for our institutions."

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