The world's largest independent tire and wheel retailer Discount Tire Company has implemented a combination of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat Satellite for its growing e-commerce business. In 2000, Discount Tire decided to bring the management of its e-commerce infrastructure in-house after having outsourced it for several years. The IT team originally tried building a new e-commerce system based on a Windows platform, but the solution did not meet Discount Tire’s performance, reliability and stability needs. Additionally, Discount Tire’s use of IBM Lotus Domino Server was a critical aspect of its daily ability to meet business demands. Previously running on Windows, the lack of reliability and consistent downtime of its Lotus software was critically impacting its day-to-day operations. “Our e-commerce environment has to be available 24/7/365 at 99.99 percent availability, making it absolutely mission-critical. Our internal applications running under Red Hat Enterprise Linux include inventory management and email – things that people cannot live without,” said Will Darton, senior server support administrator for Discount Tire.
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