Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Create new revenue opportunities with the operating system used by more than 90% of Fortune 500 companies
Build a foundation for your future business
Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® is the foundation of all our products, and it’s become the world's leading commercial Linux operating system. That means plenty of opportunities to be part of the product’s growing market share.
US $138 billion
Red Hat Enterprise Linux partner ecosystem market value
Be part of the estimated US$138 billion Red Hat Enterprise Linux ecosystem–with a compound annual growth rate of 8%–by building and certifying on Red Hat Enterprise Linux.3
100%
Red Hat Enterprise Linux renewal rate
Every Red Hat Enterprise Linux subscription that partners sell is eligible for renewal upon expiration–and the average renewal rate is 100%.4
3.5x
Increased service revenues
For every US$1.00 in Red Hat Enterprise Linux subscription revenues, partners can make an additional US$3.50 by providing value added services.5
Deliver enterprise-grade security from development to deployment
Help your clients mitigate risks, simplify compliance, and build a resilient security strategy on a trusted foundation. Red Hat Enterprise Linux offers a practical, 3-point approach to protecting hybrid clouds—safeguarding customers' workloads today while positioning your business for the quantum-computing future.
Explore current product opportunities
Whether you want to sell, provide services, or build and certify or validate solutions on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, there are many valuable ways to partner. Become an official Red Hat Partner to take advantage of these product opportunities.
Prioritize security from the start
Help your customers deploy with confidence on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Pre-tested standard configurations and quantum-resistant algorithms lower risk, while proactive vulnerability identification helps speed remediation of increasing security vulnerabilities.
Best for build, resell, distribution, and sell-with partners.
Scale business with hybrid cloud
Align with top cloud marketplaces to tap into committed customer spend and unlock new revenue. By certifying your solutions on a trusted, security-focused foundation, you can seamlessly deliver value across any enterprise hybrid cloud environment.
Best for build, resell, distribution, and sell-with partners.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 release
Introduce the innovative capabilities of the newest release to existing customers as a reason to upgrade, renew, or standardize, and achieve faster time to value with Image mode for Red Hat Enterprise Linux, which provides a container-native approach to building, deploying, and managing the OS.
Best for resell, distribution, sell-with, and build partners.
Red Hat management
Help over 40,000 existing Red Hat Enterprise Linux customers simplify system management, increase efficiency, and lower operating costs with management tools like Red Hat Lightspeed, formerly Red Hat Insights, and Red Hat Satellite. On average, customers using Red Hat Enterprise Linux management maintain >100% renewal rate.6
Best for resell, distribution, and sell-with partners.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Extended Life Cycle, Premium
Foster loyalty and boost revenue by helping your customers meet longer application lifecycle needs. Red Hat Enterprise Linux Extended Life Cycle, Premium and Red Hat Enterprise Linux Long-Life Add-On deliver the longest-term maintenance and support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux, - addressing challenges posed by highly regulated industries like finance, healthcare, and government.
Best for resell, distribution, and sell-with partners.
SAP ERP and SAP HANA
Ensure SAP ERP customers smoothly transition to Red Hat Enterprise Linux ahead of the 2027 deadline—when existing SAP users must adopt SAP HANA, a platform exclusively compatible with Linux operating systems.
Best for resell, distribution, and sell-with partners.
Limit risk from vulnerabilities with a secure platform
Deliver real business impact by bringing the built-in security, management, and AI capabilities of Red Hat Enterprise Linux to your clients. Whether migrating from community Linux or optimizing cloud workloads, you can reduce client risk with streamlined threat remediation and certified compliance profiles. Position your practice as a trusted advisor, capture high-value professional services, and build lasting, recurring revenue.
See what partners have created with Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Get inspired by some of the most popular ways Red Hat partners have brought Red Hat Enterprise Linux to market.
Amazon Web Services
Red Hat Enterprise Linux on AWS lets customers build, test, and run enterprise applications in the cloud, and benefit from a familiar interface and consistent environment with the scalability of AWS.
Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
Preventative antivirus endpoint detection software with response and vulnerability management capabilities, certified to run on Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Amazon Web Services
A co-created solution between Red Hat and Finacle to engineer the stability and flexibility of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and other Red Hat software into the software suite Finacle offers to banks.
Amazon Web Services
A popular dual-socket server built on the reliable third-generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processor. It’s designed to support diverse workloads and environments, and certified to run Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Tomago Aluminium improves SAP performance with Red Hat and IBM
By adopting an integrated solution from Red Hat, IBM, and SAP, Australia’s largest aluminum smelter improved control and security capabilities across its application environment.
What Red Hat partners are saying
“Red Hat Enterprise Linux provides a flexible and stable foundation that supports hybrid cloud innovation for Aronetics. Aronetics has a Red Hat certified security module operating from the datacenter to public clouds and out to the enterprise edge.”
John A., Founder and CEO, Aronetics
“The Red Hat/AuriStor partnership is critical to our delivering certified long-term stable solutions on Linux while proudly contributing to Red Hat Enterprise Linux development.”
Jeffrey Altman, Founder and CEO, AuriStor
Put our portfolio to work
Grow your business and deliver innovative solutions for your customers with the foundation of Red Hat platforms and technologies.
Red Hat client data and Fortune 500 list, September 2024.
IDC. “Worldwide Server Operating System Environments Market Shares, 2023:The Market Slows Temporarily,” September 2024. Document #US52585124
IDC whitepaper, sponsored by Red Hat. “Red Hat Enterprise Linux: $1.7 Trillion a Year Boost for Customers,” March 2022.
Red Hat internal financial analysis
Forrester TEI Study, sponsored by Red Hat. “The Partner Opportunity For Red Hat Enterprise Linux,” June 2023
Red Hat internal financial data
