(Raleigh, N.C.) Mainline Information Systems™ has been named the 2009 Red Hat North American Partner of the Year. This award recognizes Mainline’s investment in sales and technical resources and training on the Red Hat product line, leading to a 400% year-over-year growth in sales. The award was presented at the Red Hat Summit Partner Conference held last month in Boston.

“We are honored to be selected for this recognition,” said Donn Bullock, Mainline vice president of sales for virtualization and cloud computing. “As a solution provider and trusted advisor, Mainline partners only with the industry’s leaders, investing based upon the needs of our customers, who want IT innovation at a reduced cost and are asking for open-source alternatives to achieve these objectives.”

In addition to this award, Red Hat also announced that Mainline, already a Red Hat Premier Partner and Public Sector Specialist, has been chosen to participate in the company’s Virtualization Acceleration program. This program provides market development funds and leads directly from Red Hat to close new virtualization business for the recently released Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization.

“Mainline continues to be a trusted and dedicated partner, that consistently renews its commitment to bringing the power of open source solutions to their customers through investment and training,” said Roger Egan, senior director, North American Channel Sales and Development, Red Hat. “The Red Hat Partner Awards were designed specifically to recognize this level of commitment from our partners and we are pleased to award the North American Commercial Partner of the Year Award to Mainline.”

For more information about Red Hat’s Channel Program please visit www.redhat.com/partners.

About Mainline Information Systems, Inc.

Founded in 1989, Mainline began by offering information technology solutions and consulting in the IBM midrange markets. Since then, it has become an IBM Premier Business Partner, and global provider of information technology and business solutions, with more than 600 employees nationwide. Headquartered at 1700 Summit Lake Drive, Tallahassee, Florida 32317, Mainline provides solutions throughout the United States, Puerto Rico, Canada, Brazil and Mexico. The company may be reached by phone at 850.219.5000 and on the Internet at www.mainline.com.

About Red Hat, Inc.

Red Hat, the world’s leading provider of open source solutions and an S&P 500 company, is headquartered in Raleigh, NC with over 65 offices spanning the globe. CIOs ranked Red Hat as one of the top vendors delivering value in Enterprise Software for six consecutive years in the CIO Insight Magazine Vendor Value survey. Red Hat provides high-quality, affordable technology with its operating system platform, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, together with virtualization, applications, management and Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) solutions, including Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization and JBoss Enterprise Middleware. Red Hat also offers support, training and consulting services to its customers worldwide. Learn more: http://www.redhat.com.