The Business Value of Red Hat Solutions and Cost Relationship to Unpaid Alternatives

This IDC Study takes a look at such a comparison of several Red Hat products including Red Hat Enterprise Linux (including Red Hat Satellite and Red Hat Insights); Red Hat OpenStack, Red Hat OpenShift, and Red Hat Ansible, with community-based alternatives. The cost of deploying, managing and life-cycling these products, both individually and collectively, was considered in comparison to community-based alternatives. In addition, the impact of user productivity — the impact of time to deploy, cost of outages, and related metrics — was considered for these two sets of technologies.