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Red Hat Support Continues To Flourish

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the focus-is-everything dept.

ruphus13 writes "As the pure-play Open Source companies continue to dwindle, Red Hat has thrived through the recession. Its support revenues have grown 20+%, and account for 75+% of its revenues. 'Instead of the traditional strategy of selling expensive proprietary software licenses, as practiced by the Microsofts and Oracles of the world, Red Hat gets the vast majority of its revenues from selling support contracts. In the third quarter of last year, support subscriptions accounted for $164 million of its $194 million in revenue, up 21 percent year-over-year. All 25 of the company's largest support subscribers renewed subscriptions, even despite a higher price tag.'"

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  1. Re:I don't buy it. by frank_adrian314159 · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    But I'm married, so I guess I'm not a 'single person who pays for support.'

    OK, now we know you're lying.

    You're posting on Slashdot - you don't even know what a woman looks like.

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  2. Re:I don't buy it. by PopeRatzo · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    since this is slashdot, it could be a gay marriage.

    He said he used Suse, not OSX.

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  3. Re:Not that impressive by dbIII · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    On the positive side there isn't enough fat there for a useless playboy CEO like Sol Trujillo to turn up and destroy the thing.

  4. Re:A slight pre-emption. by Burz · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    The netbook mini-revolution was kicked off with a non-Ubuntu distro.

    Ubuntu have done very little overall for "Linux desktop" market share, which is about the same as it was 8 years ago.