Red Hat Posts Its Best Quarter Yet

wrinkledshirt writes "Anybody remember the days when the naysayers said you couldn't build a viable business model centered around open-source software? After Red Hat's 2nd quarter report, well, insert(&mouth, FOOT); is all I have to say. Okay, okay, the hubris of a Linux zealot aside, the numbers look pretty good. Revenue for the quarter was $28 million, with net income at $3 million. You'd think SCO's blathering would have damaged them, but they're actually up the last couple of quarters after posting some net losses in previous quarters." Kudos to Red Hat. They must be doing something right.

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They need smarter vendors

[jsse]

We, along with many other companies around here, have serious enterprise deployment of Redhat Linux and Oracle, thanks to their Redhat+Oracle enterprise initiatives.

However their vendors don't seem to catch up with trend. I got many calls this week from a ASL sales asking for some clarification to our order:

"Are you sure you don't need Arcserve for Linux for your tape drive?...dar? oh tar...tar? I really think you need Arcserve for schedule backup....cron?...."

"Are you sure you don't need GEAR PRO for your CDRW drives? I believe you need it for writing some CDRW....I don't think there's any CDRW burning software bundled....what cdrecord?...."

"Are you sure you don't need any antivirus sof"

*DIALTONE*

Re:Doesnt surprise me one bit.

[minus9]

Yes. Any company smaller than Microsoft and that doesn't have several billionaires on staff must be considered unsuccessful. I find your ideas fascinating and wish to subscribe to your newsletter.

Re:What's terrifying

[TheRaven64]

Linux Sucks! Open source is evil! The GPL causes cancer! GNU is un-{nation of your choice here}!

Can I have $8 million now? (Yes, I have principles, and yes, I know exactly how much they're worth...)