[dundee] Red Hat revenues up again

[Robert Ladyman]

> On 23 June 2010 08:29, Robert Ladyman <it at file-away.co.uk> wrote:
> > They really show that Open Source can work
> >
> > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/06/22/redhat_q1_fiscal_2011_numbers/
> > --
> >
> >   I liked it when Jim Whitehurst on talking to Wall Street on RHEL 6 that
> 
> software releases are not revenue events, i.e. upgrade at no cost.
> 
> Open source works so well that Red Hat are no.22 in Bloomberg's
>  Businessweek Top 50 list
> 
> http://localtechwire.com/business/local_tech_wire/news/blogpost/7829660/
> 
> Here is a video of Jim Whitehurst talking about small business and cloud
> computing to the VAR Guy. Why do people get caught up in this Desktop Linux
> obsession? It is free you do want to charge anyone for this and it is to be
> enjoyed by everyone. Open Source companies make their money by providing
> cheaper, superior services and software to companies that require mission
> critical software to ensure minimum downtime in their operations which
>  could result in large financial loss if downtime occurred. Another thing,
>  the vast majority of people in the Fedora Project that run their own
>  servers (including Red Hat employees) use CentOS, Scientific Linux or
>  Debian ( some are combined Fedora & Debian maintainers) because it is free
>  and non-mission critical. The reason why I mention the Fedora Project
>  because it is the "Father of Red Hat" (Paul Frield's words,Project leader
>  of Fedora) and is supposed to provide ideas and innovation which is then
>  transferred into stable packages for commercial use that is used by Red
>  Hat . The success of Red Hat is due to the success of the Fedora Project
>  (The Fedora Project is not a beta testing ground for Red Hat, it is the
>  spawn of originality). I will get off my soapbox now.
> 
> http://www.mspmentor.net/2010/06/22/small-businesses-how-red-hat-will-attac
> k-microsoft/
> 
> gordon
> 
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Red Hat are the example I always use when presenting on FOSS for business

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