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(Red Hat, Inc., Raleigh, NC, www.redhat.com) A software company founded in 1994 by Marc Ewing and Bob Young that specializes in distributing the open source Linux operating system. Even though...

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(Red Hat, Inc., Raleigh, NC, www.redhat.com) A software company founded in 1994 by Marc Ewing and Bob Young that specializes in distributing the open source Linux operating system. Even though the primary program components are available for free, Red Hat commercialized the product to provide training, tech support, certification, on-site consulting, documentation and priority FTP access to updates. By 2003, the company had sold one million units of Red Hat Linux. See Linux and Fedora.



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  • Open source needs successful champions

    The open-source industry needs profitable champions to demonstrate success and attract funding and participation in open source, according to Red Hat's CEO.

    News items | November 5, 2009 5:08am PST

  • Red Hat: Microsoft taking cloud back to the 80s

    Vendors of proprietary software i.e. Microsoft are attempting to lock customers into cloud computing products - just like the 80s, says Red Hat.

    News items | September 3, 2009 11:06am PDT

  • Red Hat releases Fedora 11

    Fedora 11 comes with new virtualization features, support for fingerprint readers and the promised ability for any email client to tap into Microsoft Exchange.

    News items | June 11, 2009 9:02am PDT

  • Red Hat: Cloud won't drive open-source adoption

    The cloud's heightened focus on interoperability does not directly translate to ramped up adoption of open-source software, says Red Hat executive Frank Feldmann.

    News items | March 11, 2009 5:31am PDT

  • Red Hat version 5.3 released

    Red Hat 5.3 features virtualization improvements, support for Intel's Core i7 architecture, and inclusion of the Open Java Development Kit from Sun.

    News items | January 21, 2009 4:55am PST

  • Linux pioneer moves from Red Hat to Intel

    According to most accounts, Cox was second only to Linus Torvalds in the early Linux days, working on the kernel from version 0.11, and sorting out the networking.

    News items | January 5, 2009 5:43am PST

  • Red Hat CEO: Vista marks end of 'planned software'

    Jim Whitehurst has claimed the proprietary software-development model is coming to an end, as open source better meets customer needs

    News items | October 20, 2008 6:15am PDT

  • Red Hat CEO: Money crisis will boost open source

    The global financial crisis will cause more companies to consider open-source software as an option, according to Red Hat chief executive Jim Whitehurst.

    News items | October 16, 2008 7:31am PDT

  • Red Hat: Virtualization will be free

    Setting out the roles of the two hypervisors it is working on, Red Hat has predicted virtualization will be included in all operating systems for free

    News items | September 11, 2008 5:18am PDT

  • IT Dojo: Five things to consider when choosing a Linux distribution

    Some argue that Linux distributions are essentially the same, and you should just pick the one with the color scheme you like the best. In reality however, distributions are different and some...

    Videos | August 4, 2008 8:13am PDT

  • Gallery: Roadrunner: World's fastest supercomputer

    It took miles of wire and a bunch of processors from PlayStation 3, but IBM was able to break the 1-petaflop barrier for supercomper speed.

    Image galleries | June 18, 2008 8:13am PDT

  • Red Hat: Open source driven by anti-US sentiment

    Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst says resentment at paying billions of dollars in 'intellectual property taxes' to US companies is boosting open source.

    News items | March 26, 2008 11:22am PDT

  • Open Source Business Conference

    Day 1 of OSBC 2008 at Palace Hotel in San Francisco

    Image galleries | March 26, 2008 7:17am PDT

  • Redboot -- an open source boot/debug environment

    New embedded debug and bootstrap environment from Red Hat replaces GBD and CygMon.

    News items | October 30, 2000 12:00am PST

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