New US airlineVirgin Americahas migrated
toRed Hat Linuxto host its
website.
Using San Francisco as a hub, Virgin America is a
next-generation low-fare carrier that will serve as many as ten
cities within a year of operation, and up to 30 cities within five
years.
The website has selected Red Hat Enterprise Linux as the
platform to support the website, after previously using the less
scalable Red Hat-sponsored
Fedora
open-source solution.
Since its start, Virgin America has based its IT infrastructure
on Linux using varied distributions of Fedora since the launch of
Fedora Core 2.
To obtain a solution with a longer lifecycle and reliable
support, the airline chose to migrate its proxy servers to Red Hat
Enterprise Linux.
"Fedora was a fantastic solution for us as we began our journey
with open source," said Ravi Simhambhatla, director of architecture
and integration at Virgin America.
"As our need for fine-grained control and scalability grew, we
decided to migrate to Red Hat Enterprise Linux for its reputation
as a resilient, secure and scalable platform as well as for its
incredible support."
Fedora relies on open-source community support and is popular
among hobbyists.
The airline's core website now relies on a combination of Red
Hat Enterprise Linux 5,
Squid and
Apache.
Virgin America's migration from Fedora to Red Hat Enterprise
Linux 5 will be completed by the end of 2007.