Custom Software Development

Red Hat Professional Services has world-class capabilities for development of custom open source software. This capability ranges from building core Linux components to a wide range of applications including embedded technologies, GNU-based tools, web server and e-commerce, content and collaboration management, and web application development. Red Hat's Engineering Services group delivers this specialized capability.

The Engineering Services organization has extensive experience delivering customized, optimized open source technologies to diverse organizations such as Sony Computer Entertainment, Ericsson, Brother and Delphi.

Focus on Engineering Services

Qualified engineering and development resources are a scarce commodity, and time to market is critical. Red Hat's Engineering Services teams provide immediate engineering expertise and project management to ensure your project meets deadlines and budget. Engineers are available to assist in all phases of a development or implementation project, from initial scope of work to coding, validation to quality assurance, design to implementation. Comprehensive technical, on-site project management resources are available to augment resource constrained technical organizations.

With Red Hat Engineering Services, you will gain access to the collective expertise of over 300 systems and network engineers and developers with proficiency in open source compilers, platforms, development tools, e-commerce and Web applications, driver development, networking and more.

Benefits to Your Organization:

• Speed time to market
• Priority access to the broadest range of open source application and platform development skills
• Immediate augmentation of your development staff, at an overall lower total cost
• Technical project management, coding, testing and validation expertise

Service Areas

Embedded Engineering Services

Red Hat's Custom embedded Linux development team offers a wide range of software design and development services to assist customers in deploying applications and systems software for embedded systems. These services include customization and optimization of software development tools, board support packages, boot and debug firmware, application and protocol design, and customized reference platforms for chip manufacturers.

Custom Open Source Software Development

Red Hat's Custom OSS Development team offers a wide range of software design and development services to assist customers in deploying applications and system software for Linux and other open source software platforms. Our engineers are some of the most experienced in distributed, collaborative Open Source development. We have accomplished C, C++, Perl, PHP and GNU compiler engineers with expertise in many areas, including device drivers, kernel optimization and modification, embedded systems, graphics, compilers/tools, web applications and network protocol development, plus performance tuning and benchmarking.

Development Process

Red Hat's Custom Software Development offering focuses on the creation or modification of Open Source software to address customers' unique business requirements. Through our Custom Software Development solutions, you gain faster time to market, competitive advantage through highly customized solutions, and access to the most qualified Linux and open source engineers in the world.

Regardless of the size and scope of your project, we follow a disciplined approach utilizing focused project management to ensure quality, consistency, and timeliness of delivery.

• Develop thorough understanding of your technical, budget and schedule requirements.
• Complete agreement on the technical specification, delivery dates, and business terms.
• Create a development program with close communication among engineering teams.
• Deliver a final candidate software package for your evaluation.
• Gather your feedback via our web-based project tracking system.
• Integrate your feedback into a final project deliverable.
• Deliver long-term support services with final technology.