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In 2000, Red Hat created the subsidiary Red Hat India to deliver Red Hat software, support, and services to Indian customers. [103] Colin Tenwick, former vice president and general manager of Red Hat EMEA , said Red Hat India was opened "in response to the rapid adoption of Red Hat Linux in the subcontinent.
Red Hat Linux was a widely used commercial open-source Linux distribution created by Red Hat until its discontinuation in 2004. [2] Early releases of Red Hat Linux were called Red Hat Commercial Linux. Red Hat published the first non-beta release in May 1995.
Robert Young (born 1953/1954) is a businessman who is best known for founding Red Hat Inc., the open source software company. He owns the franchises for Forge FC of the Canadian Premier League as well as the Hamilton Tiger-Cats of the Canadian Football League for which he is self-styled caretaker of the team.
But Red Hat fends off the Oracle threat and remains the world’s largest distributor of the open-source Linux operating system. January 2008: Jim Whitehurst becomes Red Hat’s third CEO.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is a commercial open-source [6] [7] [8] Linux distribution [9] [10] developed by Red Hat for the commercial market. Red Hat Enterprise Linux is released in server versions for x86-64, Power ISA, ARM64, and IBM Z and a desktop version for x86-64. Fedora Linux and CentOS Stream serve as its upstream sources.
President and CEO of Red Hat, Inc No. Name Took office Left office Role Ref. 1 Bob Young: 1995 November 15, 1999 President and CEO 2 Matthew Szulik: November 15, 1999 December 20, 2007 President and CEO [1] [2] [3] 3 Jim Whitehurst: December 20, 2007 April 6, 2020 President and CEO [4] [5] 4 Paul Cormier: April 6, 2020 July 12, 2022 President ...
Linux is used extensively on servers in businesses, and has been for a long time. Linux is also used in some corporate environments as the desktop platform for their employees, with commercially available solutions including Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop, and Ubuntu.
From this work, he began the Red Hat Linux Project. Ewing and co-founder Bob Young named their software Red Hat after Ewing's red hat. [4] At the height of the dot com bubble in 1999, Ewing briefly had a net worth of 900 million dollars. [1] Ewing left Red Hat, and co-founded the mountaineering-focused Alpinist quarterly publication in 2002. [5]