Fratelli Carli Boosts Performance with Enterprise Standard
Italian olive oil manufacturer, Fratelli Carli, standardized its IT infrastructure on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 in an effort to streamline the processing of orders and maintain system response times below one second through periods of peak demand. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 is now used to control Fratelli Carli's entire mainframe, its DB2/Udb database containing customer data, and Egon, a Java-based application, which ensures that customer addresses are entered correctly. XML messages are used to communicate between Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and the z/VSE operating system that runs concurrently on the System z9 Business Class mainframe. Fratelli Carli's new solution automatically validates delivery addresses, reducing errors in data entry, and is increasing the performance of its order possessing system. With Red Hat solutions, the company's 40 customer-relations operators are able to maintain consistent efficiency levels, even during peak periods. "I am firmly convinced that Linux is the turning point for the evolution of mainframes, which now, as in the past, continue to be excellent systems in terms of reliability and performance," says Marco Gardini, Mainframe System Architect at Fratelli Carli. "I like Red Hat because it delivers a standard Linux product much closer to the logic of a mainframe than other products."