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Advantage: Red Hat
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| Why am I not surprised to see Linux vendor Red Hat (NYSE: RHT) pull out a
| great quarter in the midst of a marketwide and worldwide panic? Let me
| explain.
|
| Just the facts, man
|
| Red Hat reported pro forma third-quarter earnings of $0.24 per diluted share,
| well above last year's $0.20 per share and handily beating analyst estimates.
| Sales grew 22% year over year to $165 million, which is slightly below
| analyst expectations; and $135 million of that figure comes from long-term
| license and support subscriptions. These results can stand back to back with
| rivals Oracle (Nasdaq: ORCL) and Big Blue IBM (NYSE: IBM).
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http://www.fool.com/investing/high-growth/2008/12/23/red-hat-can-blush-with-pride.aspx
Six Stages to SOA Evolution in the Enterprise
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| As the economic downturn causes IT budgets to get tightened, open source can
| bring value to a service-oriented architecture deployment, and in fact, open
| source is thriving in these current times of increased budget scrutiny, said
| a Red Hat Inc. executive.
|
| [...]
|
| Fricke cited a Red Hat customer, a passenger railway company with 100,000
| daily passengers and $1 billion in revenue, that deployed JBoss applications
| server, reaping 700 per cent performance gain. Following that, ticket sales
| were integrated with eBay auctions to improve utilization of trains. "One of
| the beauties of SOA is it's not a static deployment. It can be expanded to
| solve other business problems," said Fricke, while stressing that as SOA
| deployment expands across an organization, governance becomes increasingly
| important.
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http://www.cio.com/article/472613/Six_Stages_to_SOA_Evolution_in_the_Enterprise
Recent:
Red Hat Profit Rises on Sales to Budget-Minded Buyers
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=aGH406mUBH0M&refer=us
Ford, GM, Textron, Satyam Fall; Red Hat Rises
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| Red Hat, Inc (RHT: chart) added 14.2% or $1.71 to $13.68 after the Linux
| software provider said third quarter sales rose 22% to $165.3 million from
| $135.4 million a year ago. Net income in the quarter rose 20% to $24.3
| million or 12 cents per diluted share compared to net income of $20.3 million
| or 10 cents per share a year ago.
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http://www.123jump.com/market-update/Ford,-GM,-Textron,-Satyam-Fall;-Red-Hat-Rises/30777/
Red Hat bucks the trend
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| At a time when most companies are happy if the balance sheet does not show
| any red ink, Red Hat Linux has bucked the trend. Its stock price leapt 32
| percent last week compared to that a year ago, during a week when technology
| stocks overall fell by 2.6 percent.
|
| According to information available at Channel Insider, the so-called mixed
| source company, Novell, saw its stock price fall by 11 percent, the biggest
| loser of the week.
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http://www.itwire.com/content/view/22172/1090/
Rumors: Microsoft Layoffs Coming Jan. 15 (MSFT)
http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/12/rumors-microsoft-layoffs-coming-jan-15-msft
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