Red Hat, a Linux support company, went public and attained a multibillion-dollar market cap.
Red Hat will be the first open source-focused company to break the billion dollar barrier.
Indeed, at first sight, capitalism has little to do with Red Hat and its kind.
And in September Intel and Netscape invested in the leading Linux distributor, Red Hat Software.
Red Hat recently purchased storage software maker Sistina and vowed to make it open source.
Sure, the effects of Oracle's move against Red Hat may not have fully sunk in yet.
In August, Red Hat, the world's biggest Linux distributor, did the same in America.
Mr Gates may feel a little queasy about the Red Hat alliance for another reason.
This week's deal will help both Red Hat and Linux to expand their reach.
Red Hat Software gets help from powerful friends to make Linux better to use and to buy.
There are two theories on how Red Hat (RHT) should deal with its growing revenue stream.
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The Linux operating system that Red Hat's business is built around is free to share and distribute.
Oracle is moving its Solaris OS to the high-end of the market, leaving an opening for Red Hat.
But to keep growing beyond a billion, Red Hat is going to be sold as well as bought.
Amazon Web Services has already won over customers such as the New York Times, Red Hat and SanDisk.
Red Hat said the deal will have no material impact on results for the February 2013 fiscal year.
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In cloud computer service and storage operators like EMC, NetApp and Red Hat are big market share winners.
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Red Hat and other participants provide the equivalent of product management, collecting requirements and feeding them into the process.
But then again, Red Hat (NYSE:RHT) has shown that it can be done.
Companies like Red Hat make big money dishing up Linux to major corporations.
Red Hat may have been targeted by the software industry's answer to Attila the Hun, but the Raleigh, N.
Nick with rock-hard abs who will "ho ho ho" in nothing but a red hat, red Speedo and black boots.
Red Hat Tools for Embedded Developers support x86 and Power PC platforms and are expected to be available March 1.
Additional contributors and sponsors to the lab include Caldera Systems, Dell Computer, Linuxcare, LynuxWorks, Red Hat, SuSE, Silicon Graphics Inc.
With Deltacloud, Red Hat is hoping to return the speed and power of commoditized technology to CIOs and end users.
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Here are some more companies in the Ranger doghouse: Carmax, Ebay, Home Depot, Nike, Priceline, Red Hat Software and Sandisk.
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Two software firms called Red Hat and Caldera, for example, offer tested versions of the program along with installation support.
Linux software distributor Red Hat named former Delta Airlines Chief Operating Officer James Whitehurst as its new chief executive on Thursday.
One crucial difference, of course: Red Hat's business is built around software that users are free to share with one another.
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