Red Hat was once that size too, and at the time they were concerned with getting the business started and surviving as an Open Source company then “giving back”. Report comment.

A Red Hat timeline. 1993: Bob Young founds the ACC Corporation, Marc Ewing founds Red Hat. 1994: Ewing releases his own Linux distribution—Red Hat Linux.

Thanks to Red Hat’s strong brand recognition, it hasn’t had problems with customers confusing it with other “Red” companies, such as telecommunications equipment maker Redback Networks Inc.

The idea is for Red Hat to use the power of IBM’s size while maintaining its independence. When IBM paid $34 billion to acquire Red Hat in 2018, it was a big bet on a hybrid cloud future.

Red Hat is a fantastic company, and a pioneer in successfully commercializing open source. However, beyond Red Hat the effort has largely been a failure from a business standpoint.

For Red Hat customers and partners, source code will remain available via the Red Hat Customer Portal." Then all hell broke loose in RHEL clone distro circles and among Linux and open-source ...

Red Hat's total revenue for its fourth quarter was $544 million. That's up 17 percent in US dollars year-over-year, or 21 percent measured in constant currency.

Red Hat, Inc. provides open source software solutions. Its software offerings are designed to provide customers with high-performing, scalable, flexible, ...

On Tuesday, Red Hat CTO Chris Wright and CentOS Community Manager Rich Bowen each announced a massive change in the future and function of CentOS Linux. Moving forward, there will be no CentOS ...

Since then, Red Hat has applied its model to a range of other infrastructure software, moving beyond operating systems into middleware, virtualization, PaaS, and more. Open source: Must-read coverage ...