When you use Enterprise Linux, you receive the benefits of the most thorough and transparent testing and
certification available. Red Hat partners with leading hardware manufacturers to ensure that on its first
day of release, new hardware is certified and works as well as hardware that has been in use for years. And
because platform testing requires thorough testing of applications, large and small, there is no better system
integration testing anywhere.
To fully appreciate how thorough our testing is, one must understand Red Hat’s partnership model and the
community that contributes to product quality. Red Hat has pioneered the On-Site Engineering Program,
where our partners place their employees inside our facilities to work with us every day. The flow of
knowledge and collaboration between experts means systems are developed at the highest level of quality
and problems are resolved efficiently.
Our close integration with hardware vendors also provides access to test environments that are out of reach
of most software companies. Single systems with a terabyte or more of memory, clusters of 128 processors,
10GB ethernet or Infiniband, and large storage arrays and clusters are often needed to provide testing,
debugging, and optimization of real-life systems.
One measure of quality is that Red Hat’s contributions to the open source kernel pool consistently exceed
those of any other single organization. In the spirit of open source, the entire open source community has
access to those improvements and can validate and test them. The combined size of the community, and the
breadth of different perspectives that it provides, far exceeds what any single organization could achieve.