Red Hat

In 1993, Bob Young incorporated the ACC Corporation, a catalog business that sold Linux and Unix software accessories. In 1994, Marc Ewing created his own Linux distribution, which he named Red Hat Linux (associated with the time Ewing wore a red Cornell University lacrosse hat, given to him by his grandfather, while attending Carnegie Mellon University{{cite web| url=http://www.redhat.com/magazine/002dec04/features/name| title=How Red Hat Got Its Name| last=Young| first=Bob| publisher=Red Hat Magazine| date=Dec 2004| access-date=January 13, 2011| url-status=dead| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110315004449/https://www.redhat.com/magazine/002dec04/features/name/| archive-date=March 15, 2011}}{{cite web| url=http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/how-red-hat-got-its-name.html| archive-url=https://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20181118215417/https://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/how-red-hat-got-its-name.html| url-status=dead| archive-date=November 18, 2018| title=How Red Hat Got Its Name| last=Gite| first=Vivek| publisher=nixCRAFT| date=December 19, 2006| access-date=January 13, 2011}}{{cite web|url=http://www.cac.cornell.edu/technologies/operating.aspx |title=Cornell University Center for Advanced Computing / Operating Systems / Red Hat (archived) |access-date=December 7, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111026152154/http://www.cac.cornell.edu/technologies/operating.aspx |archive-date=October 26, 2011 }}). Ewing released the software in October, and it became known as the Halloween release. Young bought Ewing's business in 1995,{{Clarify|date=April 2013}} and the two merged to become Red Hat Software, with Young serving as chief executive officer (CEO).

Red Hat went public on August 11, 1999, achieving—at the time—the eighth-biggest first-day gain in the history of Wall Street.{{cite web|access-date=October 29, 2008|url=http://www.redhat.com/about/company/history.html|title=Red Hat History |publisher=Red Hat }} Matthew Szulik succeeded Bob Young as CEO in December of that year.{{cite news|url=http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/4abf87fc-28db-11da-8a5e-00000e2511c8.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221210/http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/4abf87fc-28db-11da-8a5e-00000e2511c8.html |archive-date=December 10, 2022 |url-access=subscription|title=FT.com|newspaper=Financial Times |date=September 19, 2005}} Bob Young went on to found the online print on demand and self-publishing company, Lulu in 2002.

On November 15, 1999, Red Hat acquired Cygnus Solutions. Cygnus provided commercial support for free software and housed maintainers of GNU software products such as the GNU Debugger and GNU Binutils. One of the founders of Cygnus, Michael Tiemann, became the chief technical officer of Red Hat and {{As of|2008|alt= by 2008}} the vice president of open-source affairs. Later Red Hat acquired WireSpeed, C2Net, Hell's Kitchen Systems, and Akopia.{{cite web |url=http://www.crn.com/news/channel-programs/18806277/red-hat-buys-hells-kitchen.htm |title=Red Hat Buys Hell's Kitchen |author=Vincent Randazzese |website=CRN |date=January 5, 2000 |access-date=August 1, 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110606205909/http://www.crn.com/news/channel-programs/18806277/red-hat-buys-hells-kitchen.htm |archive-date=June 6, 2011 }} {{cite news |last1=Joyce |first1=Amy |title=Reston's Akopia Agrees to Acquisition by N.C. Firm |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/business/2001/02/05/restons-akopia-agrees-to-acquisition-by-nc-firm/3eab8ad6-d2bf-45d9-9a8e-0640430bfc28/ |newspaper=Washington Post |access-date=17 April 2024}}

In February 2000, InfoWorld awarded Red Hat its fourth consecutive "Operating System Product of the Year" award for Red Hat Linux 6.1.{{cite web|title=InfoWorld Volume 22 Issue 3|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gDkEAAAAMBAJ&q=InfoWorld%20product%20of%20the%20year%202000&pg=PA44|access-date=September 24, 2015|page=44|date=January 17, 2000|publisher=InfoWorld Media Group, Inc.}} Red Hat acquired Planning Technologies, Inc. in 2001 and AOL's iPlanet directory and certificate-server software in 2004.

Red Hat moved its headquarters from Durham to North Carolina State University's Centennial Campus in Raleigh, North Carolina in February 2002. In the following month Red Hat introduced Red Hat Linux Advanced Server,{{cite web| url=http://www.redhat.com/about/presscenter/2002/press_advserver.html| title=Red Hat Accelerates UNIX-to-LINUX Migration by Announcing the First Enterprise-Class Linux Operating System| publisher=Red Hat| date=March 26, 2002}}{{cite web| last = Boulton| first = Clint| title = Red Hat Touts Linux Over Unix with New OS| url = http://www.internetnews.com/ent-news/article.php/998261| access-date = May 13, 2009| work = InternetNews.com| date = March 26, 2002}} later renamed Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). Dell,{{cite web| url=http://www.dell.com/content/topics/global.aspx/sitelets/solutions/software/os/red_hat| title=Dell and Red Hat alliance| url-status=dead| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081202181356/http://www.dell.com/content/topics/global.aspx/sitelets/solutions/software/os/red_hat| archive-date=December 2, 2008| df=mdy-all}} IBM,{{cite web| url=http://www-03.ibm.com/linux/va_4010.shtml| title=IBM Linux Portal – Red Hat| url-status=dead| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080212123424/https://www-03.ibm.com/linux/va_4010.shtml| archive-date=February 12, 2008}} HP{{cite web| url=http://h71028.www7.hp.com/enterprise/cache/321114-0-0-0-121.html| title=HP Open source and Linux| access-date=December 20, 2008| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081217155819/http://h71028.www7.hp.com/enterprise/cache/321114-0-0-0-121.html| archive-date=December 17, 2008| url-status=dead}} and Oracle Corporation{{cite web| url=https://practical-tech.com/2006/10/25/oracle-adopts-red-hat-linux-as-its-own/| title=Oracle adopts Red Hat Linux as its own| date=October 25, 2006}} announced their support of the platform.{{cite web| url=http://www.redhat.com/partners/partnerspotlight/| title=Premier Partner Spotlight| access-date=December 20, 2008| archive-date=January 8, 2012| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120108155759/http://www.redhat.com/partners/partnerspotlight/| url-status=dead}}

In December 2005, CIO Insight magazine conducted its annual "Vendor Value Survey", in which Red Hat ranked #1 in value for the second year in a row.{{cite news| url=http://www.redhat.com/f/pdf/sec/CIO_research5_1205.pdf| title=Vendor Value| publisher=CIO Insight| url-status=dead| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090304082911/https://www.redhat.com/f/pdf/sec/CIO_research5_1205.pdf| archive-date=March 4, 2009}} Red Hat stock became part of the NASDAQ-100 on December 19, 2005.

Red Hat acquired open-source middleware provider JBoss on June 5, 2006, and JBoss became a division of Red Hat. On September 18, 2006, Red Hat released the Red Hat Application Stack, which integrated the JBoss technology and which was certified by other well-known software vendors.{{cite web| last = LaMonica| first = Martin| title = Red Hat expands 'stack' with JBoss| url = http://news.cnet.com/Red-Hat-expands-stack-with-JBoss/2100-7344_3-6116186.html| access-date = May 13, 2009| work = CNet}}{{cite web| last = Loftus| first = Jack| title = Now shipping: Red Hat-JBoss application stack| url = http://searchenterpriselinux.techtarget.com/news/article/0,289142,sid39_gci1216411,00.html| access-date = May 13, 2009| work = SearchEnterpriseLinux.com| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090722180719/http://searchenterpriselinux.techtarget.com/news/article/0,289142,sid39_gci1216411,00.html| archive-date = July 22, 2009| url-status = dead}} On December 12, 2006, Red Hat stock moved from trading on NASDAQ (RHAT) to the New York Stock Exchange (RHT). In 2007 Red Hat acquired MetaMatrix and made an agreement with Exadel to distribute its software.

On March 15, 2007, Red Hat released Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, and in June acquired Mobicents. On March 13, 2008, Red Hat acquired Amentra, a provider of systems integration services for service-oriented architecture, business process management, systems development, and enterprise data services.

On July 27, 2009, Red Hat replaced CIT Group in Standard and Poor's 500 stock index, a diversified index of 500 leading companies of the U.S. economy.{{cite web|url=http://press.redhat.com/2009/07/27/red-hat-included-in-sampp-500-index/|title=Red Hat Included in S&P 500 Index|publisher=Red Hat Press Release}}{{cite web|url=http://www2.standardandpoors.com/portal/site/sp/en/us/page.topic/indices_500/2,3,2,2,0,0,0,0,0,2,3,0,8,0,0,0.html |title=List of S&P 500 Companies |publisher=.standardandpoors.com |access-date=December 21, 2009}} This was reported as a major milestone for Linux.{{cite web |last=Michael |first=Sean |url=http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2009/07/red-hat-joins-sp-500-a-sign-of.html |title=Red Hat on the S&P 500 is a sign of Linux maturity |publisher=Blog.internetnews.com |date=July 20, 2009 |access-date=December 21, 2009 |archive-date=July 24, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090724153029/http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2009/07/red-hat-joins-sp-500-a-sign-of.html |url-status=dead }}{{cite web|url=http://linux.slashdot.org/story/09/07/18/1327248/Red-Hat-Is-Now-Part-of-the-SampP-500|title=Red Hat Is Now Part of the S&P 500|date=July 18, 2009 |publisher=Slashdot}}

On December 15, 2009, it was reported that Red Hat will pay {{US$|8.8 million}} to settle a class action lawsuit related to the restatement of financial results from July 2004. The suit had been pending in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina. Red Hat reached the proposed settlement agreement and recorded a one-time charge of {{US$|8.8 million}} for the quarter that ended Nov. 30.{{cite news|agency=Associated Press |url=https://www.boston.com/business/articles/2009/12/15/red_hat_to_pay_88m_to_settle_class_action_suit|title=Red Hat to pay $8.8M to settle class action suit |publisher=Boston.com}}

On January 10, 2011, Red Hat announced that it would expand its headquarters in two phases, adding 540 employees to the Raleigh operation, and investing over {{US$|109 million}}. The state of North Carolina is offering up to {{US$|15 million}} in incentives. The second phase involves "expansion into new technologies such as software virtualization and technology cloud offerings".{{cite news| url=http://www.advfn.com/nyse/StockNews.asp?stocknews=RHT&article=45958222 |title=Expansion of Headquarters in North Carolina.| access-date=November 6, 2013}}

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On August 25, 2011, Red Hat announced it would move about 600 employees from the N.C. State Centennial Campus to the Two Progress Plaza building.{{cite news|url=http://www.newsobserver.com/2011/08/26/1437148/red-hat-to-move-to-citys-center.html|title=Red Hat will move to downtown Raleigh|last=Bracken|first=David|work=News and Observer|date=August 26, 2011|access-date=August 26, 2011|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111122031221/https://www.newsobserver.com/2011/08/26/1437148/red-hat-to-move-to-citys-center.html|archive-date=November 22, 2011}} A ribbon cutting ceremony was held on June 24, 2013, in the re-branded Red Hat Headquarters.{{cite news|url=http://www.newsobserver.com/2013/06/24/2986664/red-hat-workers-bring-energy-to.html|title=Red Hat workers bring energy to new downtown Raleigh headquarters|last=Ranii|first=David|work=News and Observer|date=June 24, 2013|access-date=August 26, 2011|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140210194507/http://www.newsobserver.com/2013/06/24/2986664/red-hat-workers-bring-energy-to.html|archive-date=February 10, 2014}}

In 2012, Red Hat became the first one-billion dollar open-source company, reaching {{US$|1.13 billion}} in annual revenue during its fiscal year.{{cite news| url=http://www.informationweek.com/news/development/open-source/232700454| title=Red Hat: First $1 Billion Open Source Company| last=Babock| first=Charles| work=InformationWeek| date=March 29, 2012| access-date=March 29, 2012| url-status=dead| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120706142025/http://www.informationweek.com/news/development/open-source/232700454| archive-date=July 6, 2012}} Red Hat passed the $2 billion benchmark in 2015. {{As of|February 2018}} the company's annual revenue was nearly $3 billion.{{cite web| title = Red Hat Reports Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2018 Results| work = redhat.com| access-date = April 8, 2018| date = March 26, 2018| url = https://investors.redhat.com/news-and-events/press-releases/2018/03-26-2018-211600973}}

On October 16, 2015, Red Hat announced its acquisition of IT automation startup Ansible, rumored for an estimated US$100 million.{{cite web|title = Red Hat Is Buying IT Automation Startup Ansible, Reportedly For Around $100M|url = https://techcrunch.com/2015/10/16/red-hat-is-buying-it-automation-startup-ansible-reportedly-for-around-100m/|website = TechCrunch|access-date = October 16, 2015|first = Ingrid|last = Lunden| date=October 16, 2015 }}

In June 2017, Red Hat announced Red Hat Hyperconverged Infrastructure (RHHI) 1.0 software product.{{Cite web|url=https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/introducing-red-hat-hyperconverged-infrastructure-10|title=Introducing Red Hat Hyperconverged Infrastructure 1.0|website=Red Hat |date=June 22, 2017 |first1=Colleen |last1=Corrice |first2=Steve |last2=Bohac }}

In May 2018, Red Hat acquired CoreOS.{{Cite news|url=https://www.zdnet.com/article/heres-what-happens-to-coreos-now-that-red-hat-owns-it/ |date=May 9, 2018 |title=Here's what happens to CoreOS now that Red Hat owns it|last=Vaughan-Nichols|first=Steven J.|work=ZDNet|access-date=October 28, 2018|language=en}}

Red Hat's links to Israel's military and professed support for Israel have also led to some controversy and calls for boycott during the ongoing conflict in Gaza.{{cite web | url=https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/support-our-israel-associates |website=Red Hat |date=October 12, 2023 |first1=Matt |last1=Hicks | title=Support for our Israel associates }}{{cite web | url=https://www.waterford-news.ie/news/setu-staff-call-to-sever-ties-with-red-hat-over-idf-links_arid-17270.html | title=SETU staff call to sever ties with Red Hat over IDF links |website= Waterford News & Star |first1=Caroline |last1=Spencer |date=29 May 2024 }}{{cite web | url=https://www.thejournal.ie/croke-park-red-hat-israeli-linked-company-summit-postponed-6487616-Sep2024/ |website=The Journal |first1=Diarmuid |last1=Pepper | title=Summit hosted by US company with ties to Israel, due to be held in Croke Park, has been postponed | date=September 13, 2024 }}

On October 28, 2018, IBM announced its intent to acquire Red Hat for US$34 billion, in one of its largest-ever acquisitions. The company will operate out of IBM's Hybrid Cloud division.{{Cite news|url=https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/28/18035086/ibm-red-hat-acquisition-open-source-cloud-software-company |date=Oct 28, 2018 |first1=Andrew |last1=Liptak |title=IBM will acquire open-source cloud software company Red Hat|work=The Verge|access-date=October 28, 2018}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/28/ibm-is-reportedly-nearing-deal-to-acquire-red-hat.html|title=IBM to acquire Red Hat in deal valued at $34 billion|last1=Kolodny|first1=Lora |first2=Alex |last2=Sherman |date=October 28, 2018|work=CNBC|access-date=October 28, 2018}}

Six months later, on May 3, 2019, the US Department of Justice concluded its review of IBM's proposed Red Hat acquisition,{{Cite web|url=https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/51143/000110465919026947/a19-9325_28k.htm|title=International Business Machines Corporation|last=United States Securities and Exchange Commission|website=Form 8-K Current Report Pursuant to Section 13 or 15 (d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190603190452/https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/51143/000110465919026947/a19-9325_28k.htm|archive-date=June 3, 2019|access-date=June 3, 2019|url-status=live }} and according to Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols "essentially approved the IBM/Red Hat deal".{{Cite web|url=https://www.zdnet.com/article/ibms-red-hat-acquisition-moves-forward/|title=IBM's Red Hat acquisition moves forward|last=Vaughan-Nichols|first=Steven J.|website=ZDNet|language=en|access-date=June 3, 2019}} The acquisition was closed on July 9, 2019.{{Cite press release|url=https://www.redhat.com/en/about/press-releases/ibm-closes-landmark-acquisition-red-hat-34-billion-defines-open-hybrid-cloud-future?intcmp=701f20000012s5PAAQ|title=IBM Closes Landmark Acquisition of Red Hat for $34 Billion; Defines Open, Hybrid Cloud Future|publisher=Red Hat|date=July 9, 2019|language=en|access-date=July 9, 2019}}

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Red Hat is the primary sponsor of the Fedora Project, a community-supported free software project that aims to promote the rapid progress of free and open-source software and content.{{cite web|url=http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Overview|title=Overview of Fedora Project|publisher=Fedora Project}}

Red Hat operates on a business model based on open-source software, development within a community, professional quality assurance, and subscription-based customer support. They produce open-source code so that more programmers can make adaptations and improvements.

Red Hat sells subscriptions for the support, training, and integration services that help customers in using their open-source software products. Customers pay one set price for unlimited access to services such as Red Hat Network and up to 24/7 support.{{cite news | url=http://blog.executivebiz.com/2014/06/draft-red-hat-selects-genesys-cloud-contact-center-solution-to-transform-customer-experience/ | title=Red Hat Selects Genesys Cloud Contact Center Tool to Transform Customer Experience | access-date=July 1, 2014 | archive-date=July 9, 2014 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140709011606/http://blog.executivebiz.com/2014/06/draft-red-hat-selects-genesys-cloud-contact-center-solution-to-transform-customer-experience/ | url-status=dead }}

In September 2014, however, CEO Jim Whitehurst announced that Red Hat was "in the midst of a major shift from client-server to cloud-mobile".{{cite web|last=Vaughan-Nichols|first=Steven J.|title=Red Hat CEO announces a shift from client-server to cloud computing|url=https://www.zdnet.com/article/red-hat-ceo-announces-a-shift-from-client-server-to-cloud-computing/|publisher=ZDNet.com|date=September 22, 2014}}

Rich Bynum, a member of Red Hat's legal team, attributes Linux's success and rapid development partially to open-source business models, including Red Hat's.{{cite web|last1=Asay|first1=Matt|title=The Red Hat business model, Part II|url=https://www.infoworld.com/article/2635433/open-source-software/the-red-hat-business-model--part-ii.html|website=InfoWorld|access-date=August 27, 2017|language=en|date=May 11, 2007}}

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Red Hat engineers worked with the One Laptop per Child initiative (a non-profit organization established by members of the MIT Media Lab) to design and produce an inexpensive laptop and try to provide every child in the world with access to open communication, open knowledge, and open learning. The XO-4 laptop, the last machine the project produced (in 2012), runs a slimmed-down version of Fedora 17 as its operating system.

Avi Kivity began the development of KVM in mid-2006 at Qumranet, a technology startup company that was acquired by Red Hat in 2008.{{cite web|date=4 September 2008|title=Red Hat Advances Virtualization Leadership with Qumranet, Inc. Acquisition|url=http://www.redhat.com/en/about/press-releases/qumranet|access-date=16 June 2015|publisher=Red Hat}}{{Cite web|title=What is KVM?|url=https://www.redhat.com/en/topics/virtualization/what-is-KVM|access-date=2021-02-11|website=www.redhat.com|language=en}}{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=Red Hat contributions - Fedora Project Wiki|url=https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Red_Hat_contributions#The_Core_Operating_System|access-date=2021-02-11|website=fedoraproject.org|quote=developed and maintained}}

Red Hat is the largest contributor to the GNOME desktop environment. It has several employees working full-time on Evolution, the official personal information manager for GNOME.

Init system and system/service manager for Linux systems.

Network-capable sound server program distributed via the freedesktop.org project.

Dogtail, an open-source automated graphical user interface (GUI) test framework initially developed by Red Hat, consists of free software released under the GNU General Public License (GPL) and is written in Python. It allows developers to build and test their applications. Red Hat announced the release of Dogtail at the 2006 Red Hat Summit.{{cite web|url=http://www.itjungle.com/breaking/bn053106-story01.html|title=Red Hat Launches Projects for Collaboration, Code Testing|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304051738/https://www.itjungle.com/breaking/bn053106-story01.html|archive-date=March 4, 2016}}{{cite web|url=http://www.redhat.com/magazine/020jun06/features/dogtail/|title=Automated GUI testing with Dogtail|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141224105504/https://www.redhat.com/magazine/020jun06/features/dogtail/|archive-date=December 24, 2014}}

===MRG===

Red Hat MRG is a clustering product intended for integrated high-performance computing (HPC). The acronym MRG stands for "Messaging Realtime Grid".

Red Hat Enterprise MRG replaces the kernel of Red Hat Enterprise Linux RHEL, a Linux distribution developed by Red Hat, to provide extra support for real-time computing, together with middleware support for message brokerage and scheduling workload to local or remote virtual machines, grid computing, and cloud computing.

{{cite web| url = http://publik.tuwien.ac.at/files/PubDat_168680.pdf| title = Linux in Safety-Critical Applications| first = Roland| last = Kammerer| date = November 4, 2008| publisher = Technische Universität Wien| location = Vienna| page = 59| access-date = January 17, 2010| quote = In December of 2007, Red Hat made a formal product announcement of a product that supports some kinds of real-time extensions.[...] This product is called Red Hat MRG (Messaging, Real Time Grid) platform. The core component is a real-time enhanced kernel that replaces the normal kernel of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux product.}}

{{As of | 2011}}, Red Hat works with the Condor High-Throughput Computing System community and also provides support for the software.

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The Tuna performance-monitoring tool runs in the MRG environment.{{cite web

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Red Hat produced the online publication Opensource.com since January 20, 2010.{{ Cite web | url = https://opensource.com/article/20/1/10-year-anniversary | title = Celebrating Opensource.com's 10th anniversary | access-date = 2020-01-20 | first1 = Jen Wiker | last1 = Huge | first2 = Matthew | last2 = Broberg | first3 = Lauren | last3 = Pritchett | first4 = Seht | last4 = Kenlon | date = 2020-01-20 | website = Red Hat, opensource.com | quote = Today officially marks 10 years of Opensource.com as a publication sharing free and open source stories. | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200120104727/https://opensource.com/article/20/1/10-year-anniversary | archive-date = 2020-01-20 | df = dmy-all }} The site highlights ways open-source principles apply in domains other than software development. The site tracks the application of open-source philosophy to business, education, government, law, health, and life.

The company originally produced a newsletter called Under the Brim. Wide Open magazine first appeared in March 2004, as a means for Red Hat to share technical content with subscribers regularly. The Under the Brim newsletter and Wide Open magazine merged in November 2004, to become Red Hat Magazine. In January 2010, Red Hat Magazine became Opensource.com.{{cite web| last=The editorial team| title=Now showing: opensource.com| url=http://magazine.redhat.com/2010/01/29/now-showing-opensource-com/| work=Red Hat Magazine| access-date=August 22, 2011}} In April 2023 Red Hat went through company layoffs and laid off the team maintaining Opensource.com.{{cite web |title=About Opensource.com {{!}} Opensource.com |url=https://opensource.com/about |website=opensource.com |access-date=14 June 2024 |language=en}}

In 2007, Red Hat announced that it had reached an agreement with some free software and open-source (FOSS) companies that allowed it to make a distribution portal called Red Hat Exchange, reselling FOSS software with the original branding intact.{{cite web|url=http://techiqmag.com/2007/03/14/red-hat-launches-business-application-stacks/ |title=Red Hat Prepares Business Application Stacks |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071013221406/http://techiqmag.com/2007/03/14/red-hat-launches-business-application-stacks/ |archive-date=October 13, 2007 }}{{cite magazine| url=http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/mar2007/tc20070314_617979.htm?chan=top+news_top+news+index_businessweek+exclusives| title=Red Hat Launches Open-Source Exchange| magazine=BusinessWeek| url-status=dead| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080602091036/https://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/mar2007/tc20070314_617979.htm?chan=top+news_top+news+index_businessweek+exclusives| archive-date=June 2, 2008}} However, by 2010, Red Hat had abandoned the Exchange program to focus their efforts more on their Open Source Channel Alliance which began in April 2009.{{cite news| last=Kerner| first=Sean Michael| title=What Happened to Red Hat Exchange?| url=http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/reports/6975/1/| access-date=December 2, 2011| newspaper=Linux Planet| date=February 5, 2010| archive-date=May 15, 2019| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190515062345/http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/reports/6975/1| url-status=dead}}

Red Hat build of Keycloak{{Cite web|url=https://access.redhat.com/products/red-hat-build-of-keycloak|title=Red Hat build of Keycloak|website=Red Hat Customer Portal}} (formerly known as Red Hat Single Sign-On{{Cite web|url=https://access.redhat.com/products/red-hat-single-sign-on|title=Red Hat Single Sign-On|website=Red Hat Customer Portal}}) is a software product to allow single sign-on with Identity Management and Access Management aimed at modern applications and services. It is based on the open-source project Keycloak, which acts as an upstream project.

Red Hat Subscription Management (RHSM)

{{cite web

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| title = How to register and subscribe a system to the Red Hat Customer Portal using Red Hat Subscription Manager (RHSM)

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| access-date = May 27, 2014

| quote = Issue[:] How to register a Red Hat Enterprise Linux system to the Customer Portal using Red Hat Subscription Management (RHSM)

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combines content delivery with subscription management.{{cite web

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Red Hat is the largest contributor to the Ceph Storage SDS project : Block, File & Object Storage which runs on industry-standard x86 servers and Ethernet IP as well as ARM, InfiniBand, and other technologies.

Ceph aims primarily for completely distributed operation without a single point of failure, scalable to the exabyte level.

Ceph replicates data and makes it fault-tolerant, using commodity hardware and requiring no specific hardware support. Ceph's system offers disaster recovery and data redundancy through techniques such as replication, erasure coding, snapshots and storage cloning. As a result of its design, the system is both self-healing and self-managing, aiming to minimize administration time and other costs.

In this way, administrators have a single, consolidated system that avoids silos and collects the storage within a common management framework. Ceph consolidates several storage use cases and improves resource utilization. It also lets an organization deploy servers where needed.

Red Hat operates OpenShift, a cloud computing platform as a service, supporting applications written in Node.js, PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby, JavaEE and more.{{cite web|url=https://www.redhat.com/openshift/community/faq|archive-url=https://archive.today/20121217180550/https://www.redhat.com/openshift/community/faq|url-status=dead|archive-date=December 17, 2012|title=Redhat.com}}

On July 31, 2018, Red Hat announced the release of Istio 1.0, a microservices management program used in tandem with the Kubernetes platform. The software purports to provide "traffic management, service identity and security, policy enforcement and telemetry" services in order to streamline Kubernetes use under the various Fedora-based operating systems. Red Hat's Brian Redbeard Harring described Istio as "aiming to be a control plane, similar to the Kubernetes control plane, for configuring a series of proxy servers that get injected between application components".{{Cite web|url=https://www.theregister.com/2018/07/31/istio_sets_sail_as_red_hat_renovates_openshift_container_ship/|title=Istio sets sail as Red Hat renovates OpenShift container ship|first=Thomas Claburn in San|last=Francisco|website=www.theregister.com}} Also Red Hat is the second largest contributor to Kubernetes code itself, after Google.{{Cite web|title=Grafana|url=https://k8s.devstats.cncf.io/d/9/companies-table?orgId=1|access-date=2021-03-26|website=k8s.devstats.cncf.io|quote=Top 10: Google, Red Hat, VMware, Microsoft, IBM, Huawei, Fujitsu, Intel, CNCF}}

Red Hat markets a version of OpenStack which helps manage a data center in the manner of cloud computing.{{Cite web|url=https://www.redhat.com/en/technologies|title=Open source technologies for the enterprise|website=www.redhat.com}}

Red Hat CloudForms provides management of virtual machines, instances and containers based on VMware vSphere, Red Hat Virtualization, Microsoft Hyper-V, OpenStack, Amazon EC2, Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure, and Red Hat OpenShift. CloudForms is based on the ManageIQ project that Red Hat open sourced. Code in ManageIQ is from the over {{US$|100 million}} acquisition of ManageIQ in 2012.{{Cite web|url=https://access.redhat.com/products/red-hat-cloudforms|title=Red Hat CloudForms|website=Red Hat Customer Portal}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.redhat.com/en/investors|title=Red Hat Investor Relations|website=www.redhat.com}}

Container Linux (formerly CoreOS Linux) is a discontinued open-source lightweight operating system based on the Linux kernel and designed for providing infrastructure to clustered deployments. As an operating system, Container Linux provided only the minimal functionality required for deploying applications inside software containers, together with built-in mechanisms for service discovery and configuration sharing.

Red Hat contributed, with several software developers, to LibreOffice, a free and open-source office suite.{{Cite web|url=https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Red_Hat_contributions#LibreOffice_developers|title=Red Hat contributions - Fedora Project Wiki|website=fedoraproject.org}} However, in 2023, Red Hat announced they were not going to include LibreOffice in RHEL 10, citing the ability to download LibreOffice from Flatpak on RHEL desktops.{{Cite web|url=https://www.theregister.com/2023/06/07/red_hat_drops_libreoffice/|website=The Register|publisher=Situation Publishing|title=Red Hat to stop packaging LibreOffice for RHEL|date=2023-06-07|author-last1=Proven|author-first1=Liam}}

Red Hat also organises "Open Source Day" events{{cite web|url=https://www.redhat.com/en/about/events|title=Events|website=www.redhat.com}} where multiple partners show their open-source technologies.Such as BPM, OpenShift, Ansible, BRMS, ADS, Alfresco, B-Cloud, Business-e, CISCO, Dell, Delphis, Elastic, Engineering, Eurotech, Extra, Extraordy, Fujitsu, HPE, IBM, IKS, Intel, Kiratech, MongoDB, Nuage, Partec, Plurimidia, Scalix, Sorint, Zextras, Zimbra, Fuse, DataGrid, OpenStack, Ceph, CloudForms.

Red Hat is one of the largest contributors to the X Window System.{{Cite web|title=Companies, Developers Contributing To The X Server - Phoronix|url=https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=x_server_contributors&num=1|access-date=2021-02-11|website=www.phoronix.com}}{{Cite web|title=Red Hat contributions - Fedora Project Wiki|url=https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Red_Hat_contributions#Xorg|access-date=2021-02-11|website=fedoraproject.org}}

Subscribers have access to:

• Red Hat Developer Toolset (DTS){{Cite web|url=https://developers.redhat.com/products/developertoolset/overview|title=Red Hat Developer Toolset|date=November 13, 2018|website=Red Hat Developer}} – performance analysis and development tools

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| url-status = dead

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| title = Red Hat Developer Toolset: Technology Brief

| year = 2015

| publisher = Red Hat

| page = 1

| access-date = November 3, 2016

| quote = Red Hat Developer Toolset is for developers on the Red Hat Enterprise Linux platform. It is a set of development and performance analysis tools that can be installed and used on multiple versions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. [...] Available through the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Developer Program and related subscriptions, Red Hat Developer Toolset allows C, C++, and Fortran developers to compile and deploy to multiple versions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

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• Red Hat Software Collections (RHSCL) {{Cite web|url=https://developers.redhat.com/products/softwarecollections/overview/|title=Red Hat Software Collections Overview|website=Red Hat Developer|date=November 12, 2018 |language=en|access-date=June 26, 2019}}

Over and above Red Hat's major products and acquisitions, Red Hat programmers have produced software programming-tools and utilities to supplement standard Unix and Linux software. Some of these Red Hat "products" have found their way from specifically Red Hat operating environments via open-source channels to a wider community. Such utilities include:

• Disk Druid – for disk partitioning{{cite web| url=http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/9/html/Installation_Guide/sn-disk-druid.html| title=Disk Druid| access-date=January 21, 2015| archive-date=January 14, 2015| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150114183356/http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/9/html/Installation_Guide/sn-disk-druid.html| url-status=dead}}
• rpm – for package management
• sos (son of sysreport) – tools for collecting information on system hardware and configuration.

{{cite web

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| title = Getting in the Fast Lane with Red Hat Support

| last1 = Bastian

| first1 = Jeff

| last2 = Streeter

| first2 = Guy

| year = 2008

| website = Red Hat

| page = 10

| access-date = July 16, 2014

| quote = sos = son of sysreport (RHEL 4.6, 5.0 and newer)

| url-status = dead

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| archive-date = September 15, 2012

}}

• sosreport – reports system hardware and configuration details{{cite web| url= http://linux.die.net/man/1/sosreport|title= sosreport(1) – Linux man page

}}{{Citation needed| reason=wider community| date=July 2010}}

• SystemTap – tracing tool for Linux kernels, developed with IBM, Hitachi, Oracle{{cite web|url= http://sourceware.org/systemtap/| title=SystemTap home page}} and Intel{{cite web| url= http://sourceware.org/systemtap/archpaper.pdf| title= Architecture of systemtap: a Linux trace/probe tool}}
• NetworkManager

The Red Hat website lists the organization's major involvements in free and open-source software projects.{{cite web| url = http://www.redhat.com/truthhappens/leadership/osdevelopment/ | title = Open source development list| access-date = January 16, 2009| work = redhat.com| publisher = Red Hat}}

Community projects under the aegis of Red Hat include:

• the Pulp application for software repository management.

{{cite web

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| access-date = October 16, 2011

| quote = Pulp [...] [a] Red Hat community project [...] a Python application for managing software repositories and their associated content, such as packages, errata, and distributions.

}}

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Red Hat Czech s.r.o. is a research and development arm of Red Hat, based in Brno, Czech Republic. The subsidiary was formed in 2006 and has 1,180 employees (2019).{{cite web|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapId=62099075 |title=Red Hat Czech, s.r.o.: Private Company Information |publisher=Bloomberg |access-date=2017-11-26}} Red Hat chose to enter the Czech Republic in 2006 over other locations due to the country's embrace of open-source.{{cite web|author=Petr Krčmář |url=https://www.root.cz/clanky/paul-cormier-ceska-pobocka-je-nejlepsi-a-red-hat-ji-chce-rozsirit/ |title=Paul Cormier: česká pobočka je nejlepší a Red Hat ji chce rozšířit |publisher=Root.cz |date=2009-11-04 |access-date=2017-11-26}} The subsidiary expanded in 2017 to a second location in the Brno Technology Park to accommodate an additional 350 employees.{{cite web|url=https://www.officelovin.com/2017/07/12/look-inside-red-hats-new-brno-office/ |title=A Look Inside Red Hat's New Brno Office - Officelovin' |date=July 12, 2017 |publisher=Officelovin.com |access-date=2017-11-26}}

In 2016, Red Hat Czech reported revenue of CZK 1,002 million (FY 2016), and net income of CZK 123 million (FY 2016), with assets of CZK 420 million (FY 2016)|CZK 325 million (FY 2015).

The group was named the "Most progressive employer of the year" in the Czech Republic in 2010,{{cite web|url=http://www.redhat.com/about/news/blog/hanging-our-hats-at-one-of-the-best-companies-to-work |title=News and press releases |publisher=Redhat.com |access-date=2017-11-26}} and the "Best Employer in the Czech Republic" for large scale companies in 2011 by Aon.{{cite web|url=http://bestemployers.cz/winners/best-employers-ceska-republika-2011/?lang=en |title=Aon Best Employers Czech Republic 2011 – Aon Best Employers |publisher=Bestemployers.cz |date=2011-04-19 |access-date=2017-11-26}}

In 2000, Red Hat created the subsidiary Red Hat India to deliver Red Hat software, support, and services to Indian customers. 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. Demand for open-source solutions from the Indian markets is rising and Red Hat wants to play a major role in this region."{{cite web| url = http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Red+Hat+Expands+Into+India%3B+New+Operation+in+India+Strengthens+Red...-a066758830| title = Red Hat Expands Into India; New Operation in India Strengthens Red Hat's Offerings to Customers in India, Sri Lanka, Nepal and Bhutan.| work = Business Wire| date = November 9, 2000| access-date = April 15, 2011| quote = the opening of this office is in response to the rapid adoption of Red Hat Linux in the subcontinent. India is one of the leading software development countries in the world. Demand for open source solutions from the Indian markets is rising and Red Hat wants to play a major role in this region.| archive-date = October 23, 2012| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20121023171013/http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Red+Hat+Expands+Into+India%3B+New+Operation+in+India+Strengthens+Red...-a066758830| url-status = dead}} Red Hat India has worked with local companies to enable the adoption of open-source technology in both government{{cite web| url = http://technofirstonline.com/?p=4931| title = Red Hat Appoints New Country General Manager For India| work = TechnoFirst| date = February 1, 2011| access-date = April 15, 2011| quote = "Open source has seen solid traction with enterprises in India. Not only has the Indian Government been at the forefront of adopting open source technologies, but Indian enterprises too have been avid users of open source software for mission-critical purposes," noted Kumar. He adds, "India's strong engineering credentials has made it an active contributor to the open source development engine. We look forward to working with the community and enterprises to take open source development and adoption to the next level in India."| url-status = dead| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110830143953/https://technofirstonline.com/?p=4931| archive-date = August 30, 2011}} and education.{{cite web| url = http://www.apac.redhat.com/news/article/468.html| title = Red Hat commits to modernizing education system in India| work = Redhat Press Release| date = March 20, 2006| access-date = April 15, 2011| url-status = dead| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110809095653/https://www.apac.redhat.com/news/article/468.html| archive-date = August 9, 2011}}

In 2006, Red Hat India had a distribution network of more than 70 channel partners spanning 27 cities across India.{{cite web| url = http://www.apac.redhat.com/news/article/490.html| title = Red Hat Strengthens Partner Network in Northern India| work = Redhat Press Release| date = May 11, 2006| access-date = April 15, 2011| quote = Red Hat India has a distribution network of more than 70 channel partners, spanning 27 cities across India.| url-status = dead| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110809095725/https://www.apac.redhat.com/news/article/490.html| archive-date = August 9, 2011}} Red Hat India's channel partners included MarkCraft Solutions, Ashtech Infotech Pvt Ltd., Efensys Technologies, Embee Software, Allied Digital Services, and Softcell Technologies. Distributors include Integra Micro Systems{{cite web|url=http://www.integramicro.com|title=Integra Micro Systems|first=Integra Micro|last=Systems|website=www.integramicro.com}} and Ingram Micro.

Red Hat's first major acquisition involved Delix Computer GmbH-Linux Div, the Linux-based operating-system division of Delix Computer, a German computer company, on July 30, 1999.

Red Hat acquired Cygnus Solutions, a company that provided commercial support for free software, on January 11, 2000 – it was the company's largest acquisition, for {{US$|674 million}}.{{cite web|url=https://www.redhat.com/en/about/press-releases/press-cygnusacquisition|title=Red Hat To Acquire Cygnus and Create Global Open Source Powerhouse|website=www.redhat.com|date=November 15, 1999 |access-date=February 23, 2017}} Michael Tiemann, co-founder of Cygnus, served as the chief technical officer of Red Hat after the acquisition. Red Hat made the most acquisitions in 2000 with five: Cygnus Solutions, Bluecurve, Wirespeed Communications, Hell's Kitchen Systems, and C2Net. On June 5, 2006, Red Hat acquired open-source middleware provider JBoss for {{US$|420 million}} and integrated it as its own division of Red Hat.

On December 14, 1998, Red Hat made its first divestment, when Intel and Netscape acquired undisclosed minority stakes in the company. The next year, on March 9, 1999, Compaq, IBM, Dell and Novell each acquired undisclosed minority stakes in Red Hat.

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