"Linux's open source architecture, combined with the extensive and established levels of support from Red Hat, will allow Liffe Connect to maintain its position as the most sophisticated derivatives trading platform on the market," said AEMS Chief Executive Officer Jean-Marc Bouhelier. "Our migration to Red Hat Enterprise Linux will significantly improve the price performance of our solutions, thereby allowing our customers to reduce their unit costs." Red Hat, a developer of Linux open source solutions and services, said AEMS would increase its network performance by a factor of 10 and reduce costs by a factor of four. AEMS chose to migrate from UNIX after evaluating Red Hat's product for performance and costs. Red Hat will also provide its Network Satellite and Network Proxy servers as part of the network.