Indian Companies Succeeds with Red Hat    Redhat Enterprise Linux is creating a wave of Linux server implementations since Redhat had started its activities in India from 1993. The reason why Redhat Linux is getting so popular with companies is only a simple matter. It is the flexibility, security and low TCO (Total cost of Ownership) that is always there with an open source platform / technology.   Over the period of time we have witnessed how many of the major corporate have shifted to Linux increasing their productivity / performance substantially. Some of the major companies that have incorporated Linux fully or partially include:    Industry in India on Linux Government Sector Government of India - Various departments Supreme court and High Courts Rashtrapati Bhavan UP Treasury MP Treasury Indian Defence Services Financial Sector Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) LIA Central Bank of India IDBI Bank Kotak Bank Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corp (HSBC) Standard Chartered Bank UTI Bank IT Sector Wipro IBM HCL Health Sector Breach Candy Hospital Media Times of India E TV Telecommunication Sector BSNL Airtel Hutch IDEA Public Sector IRCTC - Indian Railways Northen Railways Mazgao Docks HPCL BHEL Other Tata Share Registary Godrej and Boyce Rediff.com    The saga continues and here is a list of some prominent new faces that have stepped into the Redhat Linux Club in 2005 and read how they benefited from RHEL.    Indiabulls Indiabulls is India's leading retail financial services company. With approximately 8,000 concurrent investors logged on to the Indiabulls online share trading network at any given time, there is absolutely no room for error. During peak loads, the Oracle 9i database receives approximately 1,50,000 queries per minute. In migrating this mission critical application and database infrastructure from HP Tru64 to Red Hat Enterprise Linux running on x86 servers, Indiabulls has achieved 10 times more performance at less than half the cost.    Hikal Ltd. Hikal's mission critical Oracle ERP project running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux is a testimony to the robustness, performance, scalability and security of the Linux operating system. Red Hat's commitment towards providing a single point of support for enterprise deployments coupled with the high reliability factor of Enterprise Linux has given Hikal the required confidence to bank its entire business on the Open Source platform.    Eveready Industries India Ltd. Eveready, India's leading manufacturer of dry cell batteries and flashlights, has built a mission critical resource system to automate all functionalities of its day-to-day business using Oracle E-Business Suite running on the Red Hat Enterprise Linux platform. To ensure maximum uptime and optimal hardware utilization, the implementation has been enabled through the Red Hat Cluster Suite.    UTI Bank When UTI Bank decided to setup a state of the art call center, it was looking for a robust platform that could guarantee high availability of services and ensure uninterrupted call traffic. By selecting Red Hat Enterprise Linux to power its infrastructure on low cost Intel servers, UTI Bank has received immense freedom to dynamically scale up its resources as the call volume expands. It has been one year since the call center has been up and running, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux together with Red Hat Cluster Suite have delivered 99.99% uptime so far, handling volumes of over 7000 calls per day. These clearly indicate the opportunity that is being opened up for IT aspirants in the RHEL and open source. Opportunities in Open source related domain is definitely going to be a major area for some lucrative IT employment in our country.