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Swiss Online Supermarket Retailer LeShop.ch Creates New OnlineShopping Experience with OpenShift Enterprise by Red HatOpenShift Helps LeShop.ch development and operations teams migrate to a new microservices-basedapplication platform

RALEIGH, N.C. — March 19, 2015 — Red Hat Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced thatLeShop.ch, the largest online supermarket in Switzerland with 60 percent marketshare of the online

grocery market, has selected OpenShift Enterprise, Red Hat’s award-winning on-premise, private Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), to deploy andmanage its new online shopping application. With OpenShift Enterprise, LeShop.ch now has an efficient and scalable platform for developing,running, and operating its online supermarket.

 In 2014, LeShop.ch migrated its monolithic online shopping application to a more agile, microservices-based technology platform to increaseperformance and flexibility, enabling it to better compete in the highly competitive online retail market. To enable this new applicationarchitecture, LeShop.ch evaluated several competing PaaS platforms, including Cloud Foundry, as well as explored the option to individuallycreate its own homegrown application platform with Docker. LeShop ultimately selected OpenShift Enterprise as the PaaS solution that best metits needs because it provided key functions for development, integration, implementation, and operation and also enabled a hybrid clouddeployment. OpenShift Enterprise provides LeShop.ch with access to a cloud-based application platform, enhancing its ability to build the applications itneeds and have them run in a hybrid cloud architecture, both in their own datacenter and the public cloud. It automates much of the provisioningand management of the application platform stack in a way that enables LeShop.ch’s IT operations team to more easily meet growing businessdemands for new application services. OpenShift Enterprise also provides an on-demand, elastic, scalable and fully configured applicationdeployment and runtime environment for application developers, so that they can focus on building these new application services. LeShop created a new application architecture for its online shopping application consisting of loosely coupled components, known asmicroservices. Developers at LeShop.ch broke down the previous monolithic application into dozens of microservices leveraging modular designprinciples. OpenShift Enterprise was critical in providing a platform for deploying and managing these highly distributed services, across a hybridcloud environment. Red Hat has also provided LeShop.ch with its award-winning support, including professional services and training programs, helping LeShop.chto build up the expertise to manage both future development projects and the operation of its new online shopping application in-house. Supporting QuotesRaphael Anthamatten, head of Infrastructure and Operations, LeShop.ch“We are very happy with how the project is progressing and the first-class support from Red Hat. It’s not going to be a problem to complete theproject on time and on budget. OpenShift Enterprise provides all of the functions we need to implement the highly flexible micro-servicesarchitecture in development and operation.” Ashesh Badani, vice president and general manager, OpenShift, Red Hat“Quickly and reliably launching innovative solutions to market, while leveraging new technologies and application architectures, is one of the keychallenges for any online retailer. With OpenShift Enterprise, we support LeShop.ch in developing innovative new services for their onlinecustomers in order to become an even more prominent leader in the Swiss market.”

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“We are very happy with how the project is progressing and the first-class support fromRed Hat. It’s not going to be a problem to complete the project on time and on budget.OpenShift Enterprise provides all of the functions we need to implement the highlyflexible micro-services architecture in development and operation.” 

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Red Hat today announced that LeShop.ch, the largest online supermarket in Switzerland has selected OpenShift Enterprise to deploy andmanage its new online shopping application.

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