Alternative Technology Signs Distribution Agreement with Red Hat

Alternative Technology, Inc., an Arrow Electronics, Inc. aggregation and arch specialty benefactor of thin-client/server-based computing, bend infrastructure, virtualization, accumulator and aegis solutions, today appear a administration acceding with Red Hat, Inc., the world's arch provider of open-source solutions. Alternative Technology will deliver Red Hat's action solutions including Red Hat Enterprise Linux and JBoss Enterprise Middleware to its ample abject of reseller partners.

Alternative Technology will advantage its North American channel, apprenticeship and abstruse assets to aggrandize the ability of Red Hat's world-class open-source offerings. Alternative Technology band-aid providers can now offer:

-Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Server and Desktop, the arch open-source accretion platform, including virtualization
-JBoss Enterprise Middleware Platforms, Frameworks and Developer Studio
-Red Hat systems administration and aegis administration tools
-Red Hat basement articles including Red Hat Application Stack, Red Hat Global File System and Red Hat Cluster Suite

“We are aflame to be allotment of Red Hat’s focus on the approach as a primary go-to-market strategy,” said Tom Zorn, controlling carnality president, Alternative Technology. “In accession to our beat abstruse casework and best sales support, as a accessory of Arrow Electronics, we affix Red Hat resellers with commutual enterprise-class articles through Arrow’s Enterprise Computing Solutions (ECS) unit, including HP, IBM, Sun Microsystems, Network Appliance, EMC and Hitachi Data Systems, authoritative it easier to acquirement through one distributor.”

“As a value-added distributor, Alternative Technology brings cogent approach and bazaar reach, a able chump account focus, and a acceptability for accouterment arch solutions to server, accumulator and virtualization markets," said Roger Egan, director, North America Channel Sales and Development for Red Hat. “With Red Hat, Alternative Technology will action leading-edge technologies to advice ample and mid-tier enterprises acquire the allowances associated with open-source solutions. We attending advanced to alive with Alternative Technology to drive new opportunities and to accompany these solutions to the approach and marketplace.”

Channel ally can apprentice added about Red Hat by traveling to www.alttech.com/ or calling 800.544.7674 (USA), or 866.240.9991 (Canada).

About Alternative Technology
Alternative Technology is a arch specialty benefactor for value-added resellers who charge articles and casework targeted at thin-client/server-based computing, bend infrastructure, virtualization, security, and wireless markets. Driving the boundless acceptance of leading-edge technologies by bridging the gaps amid articles and casework to break analytical business problems, Alternative Technology identifies business issues that are key to its markets and offers multivendor solutions that drive appeal aback through its reseller partners. Alternative Technology, headquartered in Englewood, Colo., has offices in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., Carlsbad, Calif., and Mississauga, Canada. Alternative Technology is a wholly endemic accessory of Arrow Enterprise Computing Solutions, which is a business articulation of Arrow Electronics, Inc. (NYSE: ARW). For added information, go to: www.AltTech.com, e-mail: sales@AltTech.com or alarm toll-free: 800.544.7674 (USA), or 866.240.9991 (Canada).

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For Alternative Technology
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ProAmericas Marketing & Public Relations
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303-520-4524

For Arrow Electronics, Inc.
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Arrow Enterprise Computing Solutions
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303-824-4188