Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Red Hat Is Now Part of the S&P 500

Posted by Soulskill on from the stock-build dept.

phantomfive writes "Red Hat has made it onto the S&P 500, an important measure of the stock market. It is replacing CIT, which is expected to go bankrupt after the government refused to bail them out. Red Hat is the first Linux company to make it on to the S&P 500. While this means little directly for the company, it is an indication of the importance Linux is taking on in the world."

3 of 128 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Red Hat bully customers ? by 4D6963 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    "Red Hat .. bully customers just as well as other non-Linux open source companies, so good for them"

    [citation needed]

    Fixed it for you!

    --
    You just got troll'd!
  2. Just now? by zogger · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    How many of the companies you own stock in trade with/do business in red china (or Viet Nam for that matter)? Or put it another way, how many *don't*?

  3. Re:Let Me Be the First To Say... by oldhack · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Yeah, we keep it up, and S&P 5000 (mid-to-large cap) will soon shrink to S&P 2834 (any cap) and falling.

    --
    Fuck systemd. Fuck Redhat. Fuck Soylent, too. Wait, scratch the last one.