Marc Ewing
{{Short description|American computer engineer and entrepreneur}}
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| nationality = American
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| education = Carnegie Mellon University
| occupation = Computer engineer, entrepreneur
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| known_for = Creator of Red Hat Linux
Co-founder of Red Hat, Inc.
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Marc Ewing is an American computer engineer and entrepreneur. He is the creator and originator of the Red Hat brand of software, most notably the Red Hat range of Linux operating system distributions. He was involved in the 86open project in the mid-1990s.
Early life
The son of an IBM programmer, Marc Ewing attended computer camps as a child, and spent time learning to write programs for Apollo and Commodore computers.{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPcap/2000-03/15/071r-031500-idx.html |title=A Chain Of Riches |first=Richard |last=Leiby |newspaper=Washington Post |date=March 15, 2001 |access-date=September 6, 2022}} He graduated from Carnegie Mellon University in 1992. While at CMU, he was known to wear a red hat. Because of his computer expertise, people would ask for help from the "man in the red hat".{{cn|date=July 2022}}
Career
Following his college education, Ewing began work as an engineer at IBM.{{cite web |url=https://landley.net/history/mirror/linux/11-98.pdf |title=Business Models |first=Esther |last=Dyson |publisher=Release 1.0 |date=November 19, 1998 |access-date=September 6, 2022}} While at IBM, he spent substantial time customizing Linux workstation installations. 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.{{cite news | url=http://www.post-gazette.com/businessnews/20000106hells4.asp|title='Red Hat buys Hells Kitchen Systems'|access-date=2008-09-30 | work=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | first1=Rona | last1=Kobell | date=January 6, 2000|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20000304122651/http://www.post-gazette.com/businessnews/20000106hells4.asp|archive-date=4 March 2000}}
At the height of the dot com bubble in 1999, Ewing briefly had a net worth of 900 million dollars.{{cite interview |last=Ewing |first=Marc |interviewer=Stephen Shankland, Cnet News |title="Red Hat Founder Maps Linux Game Plan" |url=https://www.cnet.com/tech/tech-industry/red-hat-founder-maps-linux-game-plan/ |access-date= |work=CBS Interactive |date=September 7, 1999}}
Ewing left Red Hat, and co-founded the mountaineering-focused Alpinist quarterly publication in 2002.{{cite web |url=https://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2004/09/20/381152/index.htm |title=Rich kids The Google guys soar toward the top and a few humbled highfliers make comebacks |publisher=Fortune |date=September 20, 2004 |access-date=September 6, 2022}} He later began competing in desert racing, and co-founded the Riot Racing team in 2008.{{cite web |url=https://www.dirtlifemagazine.com/riot-racing-meet-the-race-team |title=Riot Racing – Meet the Race Team |date=25 January 2011 |publisher=Dirt Life Magazine |access-date=September 6, 2022}}
References
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External links
- http://www.salon.com/tech/view/1999/10/04/marc_ewing/
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Category:Carnegie Mellon University alumni
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