The City of Chicago's announced successful migration to Red Hat Enterprise Linux for essential government programs including the vehicle registration system online job applications restaurant inspections ethics training and more. The City of Chicago 
migrated to Red Hat in order to reduce costs and improve support performance and scalability.
migrated to Red Hat in order to reduce costs and improve support performance and scalability. Today the server platform supporting the City Stickers program consists of Oracle 9i Real Application Cluster (RAC) and Oracle 10g RAC database servers and a BEA WebLogic server. Based on the significant increase in overall performance the city has future plans to migrate two more Oracle database servers from Sun to HP and Red Hat. In addition to the performance improvement the City of Chicago experienced significant cost savings by migrating to Red Hat. City officials estimated the cost of replacing each of their previous Sun Enterprise 6500 servers at $300 000. Instead they selected HP servers running Red Hat Enterprise Linux at $50 000 each. Maintenance costs have also declined.
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