The Italian Ministry of Economics and Finance has
selectedRed Hat Linuxsystems to run the
organisation's mission-critical applications.
The ministry says it selected Red Hat Enterprise Linux for
reliability and heightened performance. It is using the system as
the main platform for many of its critical applications, including
its "Service Personale Tesoro" (SPT) application, which runs on one
of the most popular Italian government websites.
Marcello Niceforo, executive director of the Integrated IT
Systems Service at the Ministry of Economics and Revenues, said,
"Providing applications like SPT on the web is a mission-critical
task for the Ministry, as it enables us to reach a growing number
of users.
"SPT provides a means for citizens to receive important public
services with the comfort and the ease-of-use enabled by the
internet."
A number of additional enterprise applications are now also
running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Applications such as
accounting packages for generating payslips - both electronic and
print - for more than 1.5 million state employees rely on Red Hat
systems.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux also powers many of the Italian
Ministry's production databases, including
Oracle and MySQL ones.