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Red Hat Listed Among 50 Top Tech Companies

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the fashionable-headware-is-critical-at-parties dept.

Kelvin Ekston writes " Red Hat is listed among ZDNet Asia's 50 Top Tech companies 2006. It is also one of the fastest growing companies with 210.4% year on year income growth over 4 years. While almost all Linux companies grapple with the perennial question of how they can make money through software subscriptions and services rather than selling packaged boxes, Red Hat finally managed to improve credibly and match the hype with substance and show the way to do business with Linux. That's the way to go!"

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  1. What a suprise..... by wpiman · · Score: 5, Informative

    The ad sponsors for the link are IBM, EMC and Redhat. Can you guess which three companies are on the list?

  2. And to see the fruits of their labor... by TheLevelHeadedOne · · Score: 5, Informative

    check out http://www.centos.org/

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  3. Re:No surprise by Bogtha · · Score: 5, Informative

    I want to see at least a solid 5-10 years of profitability before I'd consider investing a dime, personally.

    Redhat merged with Cygnus, didn't they? Cygnus have been profitable using an open-source business model since the late 80s/early 90s. And Redhat as a whole have been doing business for 12 years too - although they haven't always been in the black, they have still managed to pay the bills, pay wages, and put out products that people buy for well over a decade. Redhat aren't as unproven as you make out.

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