Raleigh-based Red Hat (www.redhat.com), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, has been named the leader in vendor value and satisfaction by Ziff Davis’ 2007 “CIO Insight Vendor Value” study, which polls IT executives on the value and reliability delivered by vendors. This marks the third time in four years that the company has been ranked first of all global vendors evaluated in the study, and the fourth consecutive year Red Hat has been named the most valuable software vendor. This year, in addition to ranking first overall, Red Hat achieved first-place rankings for: 1) criteria for meeting expectations for lowering costs; 2) meeting commitments on time and budget; and 3) customer satisfaction, with 97 percent of polled customers who said they would continue to conduct business with Red Hat in the future. Red Hat ranked in the top five of all vendors in seven out of eight categories, including additional rankings for 1) expectations for quality; 2) increasing revenue; 3) ROI expectations; 4) flexibility and responsiveness to needs.
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