Linux vendor Red Hat has signed a master distribution deal with Bell Microproducts Europe in an attempt to develop a broader market for its open-source software. The deal will license Bell to sell Red Hat’s entire portfolio of open-source architecture products and services to its resellers.
Hitesh Patel, business partner manager at Red Hat, noted three main reasons for signing Bell. ‘Bell owns Ideal, which has good contacts in the storage channel,’ he said. ‘The OpenPSL part of Bell gives us an excellent entry into the market for Hewlett-Packard and Oracle enterprise products. And it gives us a completely integrated coverage of as wide an area as possible.’
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