All about Red Hat, Inc. An American multinational software company providing open-source software products to the enterprise community.

1. BY ,MANVENDRA

3. Innovation Of Red Hat Inc.
➢FounderOf Red Hat Inc. -
●BobYoung ●Marc Ewing

4. ABOUT “Red Hat Inc.”
● Founded – 1993
● Headquarters – Raleigh, North Carolina, USA
● Employees – 6,500 (in 2014)
● Red Hat, Inc. is an American multinational software company that
provides open-source software products. It has large extent with its
enterprise operating system Red Hat Enterprise Linux and JBoss.
● It creates, maintains and contributes to many free software projects
and also acquired several proprietary software packages and released
their source code mostly under the GNU GPL . As of June 2013 , Red
Hat is the largest corporate contributor to Linux.

5. !! KEY PEOPLES !!
Hugh Shelton
(Chairman)
Jim Whitehurst
(CEO)

6. GEOGRAPICAL COVERAGE
•The Red Hat Society has spread in many
countries of the world. As of 2011, besides the
thousands of chapters in the U.S., there were
local chapters of the Society in Argentina,
Australia, Austria, Canada, England, Finland,
Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Mexico,
Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Scotland,
South Africa, Sweden and Taiwan.

7. !! PRODUCTS !!

8. SPREAD OF RED HAT PRODUCTS WORLDWIDE
U.S. Navy Submarine Fleet The City of Munich, Germany
Spain
Government of Mexico City The Indian State of Tamil Nadu German Universities

9. HISTORY OF “Red Hat Inc.”
● In 1993 - Bob Young created a business of Linux and Unix software accessories.
● In 1994 - Marc Ewing created his own Linux distribution , which he named Red Hat Linux.
● Ewing released the software in October , 1993 and it became known as the Halloween release. Young served
as Chief Executive Officer (CEO).
● Red Hat went public on August 11, 1999, achieving the eighth-biggest first-day gain in the history of Wall
Street.
● In February 2000 - InfoWorld awarded Red Hat its fourth consecutive “Operating System Product of the
Year“ award for Red Hat Linux 6.1.
● Red Hat introduced Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and Dell, IBM,HP and Oracle Corporation announced
their support of the platform.
● In December 2005 - CIO Insight magazine honored Red Hat as ranked #1 in “Vendor Value Survey” for two
years in row.
● Red Hat acquired open-source middleware provider JBoss on June 5, 2006 and it became part of Red Hat.
● On March 15, 2007 - Red Hat released Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and also involved expansion into new
technologies such as software virtualization and technology cloud offerings.
● Red Hat became the first one-billion dollar open source company in its fiscal year 2012, reaching $1.13
billion in annual revenue.

10. ACHIEVEMENT OF “Red Hat Inc.”
● Red Hat sponsors the Fedora Project , a community-supported open-
source project that aims to promote the rapid progress of free and
open-source software and content.
● 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.
● Red Hat operates OpenShift, a cloud computing platform as a service,
supporting applications written in Node.js, PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby,
and JavaEE.

11. AWARDS
• RED HAT INNOVATION AWARDS -
• THE 2013 RED HAT INNOVATION AWARD WINNERS INCLUDE:
• BOOZ ALLEN HAMILTON
• NACIÓN SERVICIOS S.A.
• CIGNA
• ROCHE
• STYLMARK, INC.
• SPIN SYSTEMS, INC.
• INTUIT
• CITYTECH Awarded Premier Red Hat Partner Status.
• The Chairman's Award, Red Hat's highest award, is given annually to 12 employees who have
made outstanding contributions.

12. News and press releases
• With JBoss Data Grid 6.2 beta, Red Hat Helps Enterprises Put “Data Traffic Jams” in the Rearview Mirror
• Fedora 20, "Heisenbug," Now Available in Beta Release
• The Fedora Project is excited to announce the beta release of Fedora 20.
• Red Hat Brings OpenShift Online Platform-as-a-Service to 14 New Countries, Expands Gear Size Offerings for Developers
• Red Hat is expanding OpenShift Online’s global availability, and introducing new pricing and memory options.
• Red Hat Expands OpenShift Partner Ecosystem to Offer Additional Services
• Several new partners help deliver even more choice to developers across public, private and hybrid cloud deployments.
• Rapidly Growing Cooking Studio in Japan Chooses Red Hat for IT Flexibility

13. RED HAT RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
(R&D CENTRES)
• Research and development expense consists primarily of personnel
and related costs for development of software technologies and
systems management offerings. Research and development expense
increased by 33.6% or $32.8 million to $130.2 million for the year
ended February 28, 2009 from $97.4 million for the year ended
February 29, 2008.
• Red Hat, among the world's leading open source solutions
provider announced the setting up of it's largest engineering
facility outside North America in Pune ,May 7, 2012. The
company also launched another 'Engineering Center of
Excellence' in Bangalore, reiterating its commitment to the Asia-
Pacific region.

14. CONCLUSION
Red Hat company is developing in providing open
source softwares and products related to it and
open an access to the world of free softwares.

15. URL:
http://www.redhat.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Hat
http://www.redhat.com/innovationconnection/awards.html
http://in.redhat.com/about/news/
Created by - Manvendra Priyadarshi,
B.tech student in Cloud Computing and
Virtualization Technology
Email Id : Manvendradaredevil@gmail.com