Red Hat, Inc. is a company in the free and open source software sector, and a major Linux distribution vendor. Founded in
1993, Red Hat has its corporate headquarters in Raleigh, North Carolina with satellite offices worldwide. Red Hat has become
associated to a large extent with its enterprise operating system Red Hat Enterprise Linux and with the acquisition of open-source
enterprise middleware vendor JBoss.
Ingram Micro, Inc. NYSE: IM is a Fortune 100 company founded in 1979 as Micro D and based in Santa Ana, California. It is
the world’s largest technology distributor and a leading technology sales, marketing and logistics company. The company distributes
and markets IT products from computer hardware suppliers, networking equipment suppliers, and software publishers worldwide.
It also provides and maintains databases for its customers.
IBM Application Management Services (AMS) is a part of the IBM Corporation that contributes to the Global Delivery Framework
of the Organisation. It offers a suite of services that span the spectrum of application management -- encompassing project
management and business analysis; requirements definition; architecture; design; development, coding; testing; maintenance;
deployment and support.
