Red Hat
Red Hat delivers stand-alone hypervisor, management tools
Nov. 03, 2009
Red Hat Tuesday made good on its promise to deliver a stand-alone hypervisor and a set of management tools as its gears up to go toe-to-toe with VMware and Microsoft to become a top-tier provider of virtualization and ...
Red Hat takes aim at Microsoft, VMware with virtualization, cloud strategy
Sep. 03, 2009
Red Hat this week lined up nose-to-nose with VMware and Microsoft laying out its bid to become a top-tier provider of virtualization and cloud computing infrastructure software for both the enterprise and service ...
Microsoft, Red Hat seal the deal on interoperability
Oct. 07, 2009
Microsoft and Red Hat might disagree on some things but as far as virtualization goes they have aligned their operating systems and hypervisor technology so that they will interoperate.
Red Hat virtual desktop technology heads into beta tests
Jun. 03, 2009
Red Hat's virtualization scheme going forward is based largely on technology obtained via its acquisition of Qumranet. The company will offer virtual desktops and servers, plus a common management platform.
Building open-source acceptance
Jun. 20, 2008
Children are taught as early as preschool that sharing is an essential part of learning to get along with others. Yet some people still can't grasp the concept of sharing code or they reject open source because of the ...
Red Hat defends its subscription license model for Linux
Sep. 04, 2009
Anyone finding Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) subscriptions a tough sell for management used to Microsoft's one-time license fee for Windows must emphasize that there are more factors to be considered, chiefly return ...
Red Hat promotes cloud projects, pans Microsoft and VMware
Sep. 03, 2009
Declaring that Microsoft and VMware will not drive cloud interoperability, Red Hat on Thursday detailed projects to proliferate use of clouds, including Project Hail, for putting applications onto a cloud.
Red Hat widens Java support, aims at cloud with new middleware
Sep. 03, 2009
Red Hat this week made available its JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (EAP) 5.0, the foundation for the vendor's new Java-based middleware strategy and a core element of its emerging cloud plans.
Red Hat releases first KVM support with RHEL 5.4
Sep. 03, 2009
Red Hat Wednesday for the first time included KVM hypervisor technology in a release of its Enterprise Linux operating system, kicking off the vendor's plans to earn a significant role in the virtualization market.
Red Hat CEO: Choose flexibility or Larry Ellison
Sep. 02, 2009
Preaching on Red Hat's perceptions of open source, Red Hat President and CEO Jim Whitehurst on Wednesday asked the audience at the company's technical conference whether they want flexibility in their IT architectures ...
Red Hat bolsters system management tools
Sep. 02, 2009
Chicago – Red Hat Wednesday released the latest version of its system management tools, the first version based on its year-old open source project Spacewalk project.
Red Hat, IBM, Novell major contributors to exploding Linux kernel development - Network ...
Aug. 19, 2009
Red Hat, IBM and Novell remain the top contributors to the Linux kernel, an open source project that has grown by 2.7 million lines of code over the past 16 months, according to a report put out by the Linux Foundation.
Red Hat lauds, criticizes Microsoft's Linux efforts
Jul. 22, 2009
While applauding Microsoft's contribution of code to the Linux community this week, Red Hat nonetheless urged its rival to pledge that it will never use its patents against Linux.
Red Hat debuts new hypervisor, open-sources Linux management platform
Jun. 19, 2008
Red Hat released a new server virtualization platform and open sourced the code of Red Hat Network.
Red Hat skips consumer Linux desktop
Apr. 17, 2008
Red Hat has no plans to create a traditional desktop product for the consumer market, but will continue to place its bets on a desktop for commercial markets.
Red Hat creates program for cloud providers
Jul. 01, 2009
Red Hat wants to make sure it addresses all the cloud security issues that it can, so it's started a program to certify that its software runs safely in the cloud.
Save Mart grocery chain sees savings in open source
Jun. 29, 2009
Open-source software is not only as good as proprietary vendor software in many cases, it's better — and certainly a lot cheaper, according to James Sims, vice president of information technology and chief information ...
Moblin: 6 key things to know
Jun. 16, 2009
Moblin, short for mobile Linux, is a free, open-source operating system originally developed by Intel for its low-power Atom processor and designed to run on devices, including netbooks.
Fedora 11 released with new virtualization, software management tools
Jun. 09, 2009
The Fedora Project on Tuesday released version 11 of its Linux open source operating system, adding expanded hardware support, new software management and improved virtualization.
Red Hat sues Swiss government over $39M Microsoft contract
May. 26, 2009
Red Hat has filed suit with the Swiss Federal Administrative Court, asking it to cancel a contract for desktop software and services that a government agency awarded to Microsoft without calling for competitive bids, ...
Red Hat connects its distributor SYNNEX with ISVs
Apr. 14, 2009
Red Hat is helping nine of its open-source ISV partners get broader distribution for their products in North America through a partnership with one of its major distributors, SYNNEX.
Red Hat CEO seeks open source in government
Apr. 06, 2009
Red Hat's CEO, in a blog post on Monday, is endorsing the Obama Administration's call for openness and participation in government by likening the President's statement to the open source software movement.
Red Hat targets VMware, Microsoft with virtualization line
Feb. 23, 2009
Red Hat Monday introduced an entire line of virtualization software aimed at disrupting the current market and leader VMware's position by giving customers an open source option for virtualizing their data centers.
Red Hat undercuts Microsoft on high-performance OS pricing
Oct. 02, 2008
Red Hat Thursday released a Linux software stack for compute-intensive IT environments that it said costs less than Microsoft's price for its comparable Windows offering.
Red Hat buys desktop-virtualization vendor Qumranet
Sep. 04, 2008
Red Hat Thursday extended its virtualization wares to the desktop, spending $107 million in cash to acquire open source vendor Qumranet.
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Red Hat profile
Overview
2005 NW200 rank: 116
2004 NW200 rank: 134
Revenue
| Total '05 revenue (in $M) |
|
257 |
| '04-'05 revenue change |
|
46% |
| '01-'05 CAGR revenue |
|
34% |
Profit
| Profit or loss (in $M) |
|
64 |
| Change from '04 |
|
66 |
| As percentage of revenue 25 |
|
25 |
| CAGR, '01-'05 |
|
- |
Employees
| Number of employees |
|
959 |
| '04 - '05 change |
|
2
|
| Revenue per employee |
|
268092 |
Misc.
| Mkt Cap as of 3/19/05 ($M) |
|
5110 |
| Cash/investments ($M) |
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| Year inc. |
|
1993 |
| Fiscal year ends |
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Feb |
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