Red Hat Europe was established in July 1999 and has European headquarters in Surrey, England and offices throughout Europe. Red Hat develops, deploys and manages solutions built on an open source platform. These include an open source product platform that provides the only common, globally available Linux operating system for mainframes, embedded devices, an e-Commerce platform, Database, Secure Web Server, High Availability Server, embedded Linux , eCos and a GNU-based developer toolkit for embedded devices.