Red Hat is an interesting company - arguably one of the most successful companies to commercialize around an open source project, they leveraged Linux and build a profitable business on top of it.
Red Hat has long been the only significant publicly traded open source vendor, and after MySQL's acquisition not much happened in terms of open source exits for several years.
The open-source community is beating up Red Hat for deciding to make OpenStack more enterprise-ready. Is this a replay of Red Hat's "enterprise Linux" decision in 2003?
Last week Peter Levine, former XenXource CEO and current Andreesen Horowitz partner, wrote an article for TechCrunch titledWhy There Will Never be Another RedHat: The Economics of Open Source. In that article he makes a reasonable case for opining that the likelihood of another company achieving RedHat-scale success based on wrapping services around an open source offering is very low. Instead, he proposes that the model that can lead to significant success is to include open source components in a service that includes additional (presumably proprietary) functionality and/or services.
Open source software powers the world’s technology. In the past decade, there has been an inexorable adoption of open source in most aspects of computing. Without open source, Facebook, Google, Amazon, and nearly every other modern technology company would not exist. Thanks to an amazing community of innovative, top-notch programmers, open source has become the foundation of cloud computing, software-as-a-service, next generation databases, mobile devices, the consumer internet, and even Bitcoin.
Red Hat, Inc, the world's leading provider of open source solutions, and the CentOS Project today announced they are joining forces to build a new CentOS, capable of driving forward development and adoption of next-generation open source technologies.
(Manufacturing Close - Up Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Red Hat, Inc., a provider of open source solutions, announced the general availability of a new release of Red Hat Storage to help enterprise customers further realize the true potential of deploying an open software-defined storage solution without compromising on enterprise grade capabilities, performance, and manageability.
"Don't miss this wave," Mark Enzweiler tells partners as Red Hat prepares to invest in helping partners sell open source as innovation, not commoditization.
Red Hat is the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, using a community-powered approach to provide reliable and high-performing technologies
During OPEN'14 we were able to interview the 4 giants in Open Source: Peter Dens (Kangaroot), Jeff Scheel (IBM), Erik Geensen (Red Hat), Sandor Klein (EDB).
One of the benefits of open source software is that it tends to reduce the lock in that customers face – when multiple options exist for customers’ technology needs, there is more choice and hence less chances for a vendor to lock customers in. Of course the flip side of that is that for open source software vendors, it is hard to ensure the continuity of their revenue streams. In an idea world all vendors would keep customers because of their awesome service, their great support and their breadth of options, but alas we don’t live in a perfect world.
In 2018, no company will have a chief digital officer. In fact, many will wonder why they ever had one. The CDO was a response by the management of many manufacturing, services and agency businesses to the emergence of a set of networks, devices and protocols that created new consumer behaviours, new businesses, new media and communication experiences.
If you were a VC, you'd be looking for a way to turn your millions into billions. If you had only ever made money by betting on proprietary corporations, you would probably conclude that open source was a poor way to win big.
Red Hat is one example of a highly distributed, highly effective company; in addition to its corporate hub in Raleigh, NC and development center in Westford, MA, it employs many highly-talented virtual employees. Red Hat’s culture is friendly to remote workers. Apple, on the other hand, is densely concentrated in Cupertino, where plans for a spaceship-like office complex are moving forward. Its centralized, command-and-control culture appears to be less adaptable to supporting large numbers of remote workers. Go figure.
Tech company Red Hat has become the face of Linux, an open-source operating system used by most corporations and hosting companies on their servers, including Rackspace Hosting and Amazon.com's Amazon Web Services.
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