Governments also prefer Redhat because they early on and continuing today have shown a commitment to the market by investing in getting their products certified to meet government required standards including developing the required capabilities when not already available in the Linux ecosystem, developing documentation and software to assist deploying systems in a manner consistent with government security requirements and participating in conferences, working groups, interoperability tests and other government targeted or sponsored forums.
Some other Linux vendors now also do so but started much later and even now do so to a much lesser degrees.
Some other Linux vendors now also do so but started much later and even now do so to a much lesser degrees.