Red Hat Shares Jump 10 Percent
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| Shares of Red Hat Inc. jumped 10 percent Friday, one day after the open
| source software distributor announced a rise in third-quarter earnings and
| the appointment of a new chief executive.
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http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/071221/red_hat_shares.html?.v=1
New Red Hat CEO checks open source claims
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| The news that the operations chief from a major US airline, Jim Whitehurst
| from Delta, is taking over at Red Hat from Matthew Szulik is a further sign
| of the growing legitimization of open source and Linux in the eyes of
| corporate, mainstream America. It underscores how the “suits to sandals”
| ratio in the open source and Linux movement sliding further towards the
| suits.
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| Whitehurst’s blue-chip background at the $16-billion-a-year Delta and the
| fact he’s an executive lured from outside of the IT industry rather than one
| who simply swapped one tech industry management job for another underscores
| the belief in open source as a business.
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http://www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2007/12/21/red_hat_new_ceo/
The company's figures in the past quarter were up significantly, about 30%
depending one what one measures.
Related:
RHEL just tripled the size of its ISV ecosystem!
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| Through that series of announcements, Red Hat is lining up its complete RHEL
| strategy and making it clear that it can fit all deployment scenarios -
| traditional or emerging - through the exact same RHEL bits. That proves the
| flexibility of RHEL as a distribution and also factually multiplies the size
| of RHEL’s ecosystem by further enabling all existing RHEL’s ISV on two new
| emerging scenarios, Virtual Appliances and Cloud Computing. While that might
| seem like a trivial statement, it is far from the truth. Just look at VMWare
| for example: while they are getting great traction in the virtualization
| field, it is going to be very difficult for them to enter the two emerging
| fields discussed above, as they have a pretty much empty ISV ecosystem today.
| And you don’t build an ISV ecosystem overnight (you can partner with one or
| acquire one, but not build one overnight).
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http://sacha.labourey.com/2007/11/14/rhel-just-tripled-the-size-of-its-isv-ecosystem/
Interview with Brian Stevens
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| What else can we expect to see from new Red Hat offerings? Should we just
| watch Fedora or where else can we learn about new stuff coming down the pipe?
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| Everything that we have under development is happening in public. I think
| that we stand unique in that and that the media and our customers are usually
| well aware of technology that’s going to be coming from Red Hat long before
| we productize it.
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http://www.linuxworld.com/community/?q=node/1749
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