Next week is Red Hat Summit and we’ll be flying our colors in booth 7.   In fact, this is our fourth year attending the event, and every year we’ve seen an increase in activity not just at the event but in the amount of Red Hat customers we are working with for Active Directory integration.  Yep, we’re big fans of Red Hat — especially considering  just how many of our customers use Red Hat as their primary server or desktop platform. And, we’re a previous winner of the Red Hat Innovation Award in the category of Enhanced Security.

As Barry Crist has noted, Red Hat is doing some exciting work in the Cloud, and we see them being successful there.  Our developers work hard to make sure our software, both Likewise Open and Likewise Enterprise, works well with Red Hat’s.

These are some exciting times for both Red Hat and Likewise, as both companies redefine the future of interoperability in the datacenter.  We’re doing this with commitment to community and open source,  focused and driven engineering and development teams, and creative thinking by our executives and project managers that dares to push the envelope.

Here’s what Tracy Lothringer, Director of Strategic Alliances has to say about Red Hat:

“More than half of Likewise customer server licenses are on Red Hat — so our relationship with them is a critical one. Red Hat is moving well beyond data center oriented Unix migration and is reaching into the broader market. We’re seeing RHEL adoption in market segments that hadn’t been using Unix previously — representing new growth for Linux.  These customers require solutions to unify their increasingly mixed environments.”

We’re really looking forward to this show.  If you’re going, please let us know in the comments, email us at info@likewise.com, or come see us in booth number 7!  We’re a ‘Silver Sponsor’ at this years’ show with a pretty good-sized booth, so we should be easy to find!  Stop on by and say hello, see a demo of Likewise in action, and enter to win an iPad.

Event Details:
Red Hat Summit – Likewise in Booth 7
June 22-25th, 2010
Seaport Hotel and Seaport World Trade Center
One Seaport Lane
Boston, MA 02210
www.redhat.com/summit

One more thing to mention–on June 29th (Tuesday of the week after next) we’re hosting a joint webinar with Red Hat titled  “Securing RHEL Servers with Likewise and Active Directory.”  The webinar is free and we’re encouraging show attendees to invite others in their organization to the webinar as well as anyone else who would like to join.  Register here

See you in Boston!