Your questions for Red Hat?

Red Hat's chief exec Matthew Szulik at last year's Red Hat conference in Nashville

I'm off to Red Hat's annual user conference in San Diego next week to find out what the Linux specialist's plans are for the next 12 months. It has been an interesting year for Red Hat – to say the least – with not only Novell's tie-up with Microsoft piling on the pressure but Oracle opting to release its own version of Red Hat's Linux distro for use with its database apps. But rather than being squished in a pincer movement, Red Hat seems to have escaped largely unscathed apart from reporting a dip in profits for last quarter compared to the previous year.

I have got some good interviews lined up including one with the Red Hat execs involved with the One Laptop per Child scheme, and Eben Moglen, founding director of the Software Freedom Law Centre. But it would be great to field some questions direct from ZDNet UK readers – so if you have a burning issue you want to relay to Red Hat then reply to this post below.