Chicago selects Red Hat to help improve services provided to citizens while reducing infrastructure costs by more than 85%

From the "stories-we'd-like-to-see-here dept.":

"The City of Chicago migrated to Red Hat in order to reduce costs and improve support performance and scalability. The city has already saved more than $250 000 and is reducing server hardware maintenance and operating costs as a result of Oracle's certification and support infrastructure on Red Hat.

Impressive results were immediately noted by the City Clerk's office responsible for the City Stickers program. Sun Solaris benchmarked at 50 268 transactions per minute while the HP DL580 G2 with Red Hat Enterprise Linux benchmarked at over 149 500 transactions per minute. When running the city's long batch cycles Red Hat Enterprise Linux proved to be 50 percent faster. The significantly improved performance has increased total revenue for the project as well."