This was announced during Red Hat’s partner conference in Malta.

“We are very pleased to have been honoured in this way. It is an acknowledgement of our expertise and a confirmation of Redpill Linpro’s position as a leading free software providor. It is a great honour for all the Redpill Linpro employees, who work hard to prove that we are the best,” comments Trond Heier, co-CEO of Redpill Linpro.

Redpill Linpro is Red Hat’s largest Nordic partner, and has invested significant resources in building Red Hat expertise and increasing the market scope of their products and solutions. The prize can be regarded as not just proof of local knowledge and results, but also that the company is one of the best in Europe, the Middle East and Africa when it comes to solutions and products based on free software.

“We are pleased to award Redpill Linpro the prize of best Red Hat EMEA Infrastructure Partner of the Year for 2009. They have built up and increased Red Hat’s market presence in Scandinavia in a unique way. During 2009, they have almost doubled growth and provided business-critical solutions to many major strategic customers, including parties within the public sector,” says Petra Heinrich, Director Partners and Alliances EMEA.

Red Hat supplies Red Hat Enterprise Linux and the JBoss Enterprise Middleware solution. They also offer applications and administration solutions, as well as support, training and consultancy services. Redpill Linpro is a Red Hat Advanced Partner and is also Red Hat's only certified course partner in Norway.

“In the current financial climate, it’s more important than ever to choose solutions that provide more for less. Red Hat’s product range is one of the best examples of this. The feedback we receive from our customers shows that free software provides benefits in both the short and long term compared with the traditional alternatives. Red Hat and JBoss are on the way to becoming preferred choices. The are a number of reasons, including price, functionality, scaleability, simplicity, security and, last but not least, the benefit of being able to choose free and customisable solutions,” concludes Heier.

About Redpill Linpro

Redpill Linpro is Scandinavia’s leading total supplier of professional services and products for free software. The company offers consultancy services, development services, courses, support, and application administration and operation for free software products ranging from infrastructure, databases, middleware and business systems to customised solutions based on open source code components. With a staff of 200 at present, Redpill Linpro can provide high-quality services for business-critical solutions for customers throughout Scandinavia. The company’s offices in Stockholm, Oslo, Copenhagen, Helsinki, Gothenburg, Karlstad and Stavanger work together to ensure that customers are offered the best services, regardless of their location.

Contact person

Anders Liling, CEO of Redpill Linpro
Mobile: +46 70 603 36 30
E-mail: anders.liling@repill-linpro.com