Article Title: the largest car website adopts the Red Hat Linux solution. Linux is a technology channel of the IT lab in China. Includes basic categories such as desktop applications, Linux system management, kernel research, embedded systems, and open source.
RedHat recently announced the Trader Media Group and its Autotrader. co. uk website ?? The largest car website in the UK ?? As a standard platform, the Red Hat Enterprise Linux and JBoss Enterprise application platforms are used. This combined Red Hat solution enables the Trader Media Group to have a more flexible, high-performance and stable platform, so that the internal operation team of Auto Trader can expand as the company continues to grow.
Autotrader. co. uk has more than 10.3 million users each month. These users perform more than 0.106 billion searches for new and old cars on their websites. As the UK's largest car website, the availability, stability, and speed of the Auto Trader website are the key to keeping the company ahead of the market. Users need 24x7 High-Speed and accessible networks.
Peter Hanlon, Chief Technical architect of Trader Media Group, said: "JBoss has brought us a platform that includes all the core components we need (such as message functions and Web Services, the result is an out-of-the-box enterprise-level infrastructure. We are very satisfied with the JBoss Enterprise Application Platform. Our development team with more than 60 members is satisfied with the deployment and the Operation Team understands it, thus laying a solid foundation for future development ."
In the past, the Trader Media Group used a variety of platforms to support different applications on the Auto Trader website, which brought about maintenance costs and efficiency, especially the challenge of knowledge management. The Trader Media Group is aware of the need to replace these inefficient and current systems with a reliable, cost-effective solution. At that time, the company's goal was to unify the system to a vendor's products and optimize the Maintenance and support required for applications running on AutoTrader. co. uk.
The solution deployed by the Trader Media Group includes the Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating platform and the JBoss Enterprise Application Platform that provides message and Web services. The latter includes JBoss Hibernate, a high-performance object/relational persistence and query service. With the RedHat solution, knowledge management is greatly simplified. Since the new platform is an open-source platform, it helps the company establish a strong community where employees can discuss issues and exchange knowledge.
The combination of Red Hat and JBoss solutions enables the Trader Media Group to purchase, deploy, and redeploy more servers at very competitive prices.