Red Hat White Paper Sample

Business requirements for an IT infrastructure are all about the applications. Businesses depend on their applications for themselves and their customers. The applications’ performance and availability, in turn, depend on the platform on which they are deployed. Other business requirements, such as performance (often defined as response time, reliability, and stability), availability, scalability, security, and total cost of ownership (TCO) are also of high priority in decision-making. More abstract requirements, like openness, reputation of the vendor, and the probability of the vendor ending product support, are often not formally specified, but play an important role in making longterm platform decisions.

The availability of an application on an operating system is a primary consideration. Having your application readily available on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and/or Solaris x86, is the best situation.