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Red Hat Growth Recognized by Forbes Magazine

by Tom McCallum, Vice President, Investor Relations

Last week, Forbes recognized Red Hat on its list of the top 25 fastest-growing technology companies in America. Forbes’ sixth-annual list includes a broad spectrum of companies from biotech to aerospace, and recognizes seven software-related companies. Red Hat made the list this year for the first time and was ranked eleventh overall. Other top names in technology on the list include Google, ranked first overall, and SalesForce.com, ranked second.

The list may be published annually, but the criteria for inclusion is based on a long horizon of performance and the delivery of solid results that reflect hard work over the years. The criteria for Forbes’ list mainly focused on sales growth, profitability, growth outlook and the lack of legal, accounting or corporate governance issues.
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Filed under Brand, Awards on February 4th, 2008 | Comments Off

Keep Your Eye on Red Hat in 2008

by Michael Chen, Vice President, Corporate Marketing

It’s no secret that Red Hat has a lot to offer customers, partners and the entire open source ecosystem. Red Hat has long been at the core of a multi-billion dollar (and growing) open source industry. We changed the dynamic of the technology industry and delivered tremendous value to thousands of customers in the process. But keep your eye on Red Hat, because this is just the beginning of our journey to build the defining technology company of the 21st century.

Linux Magazine recently recognized twenty companies in the free and open source software community that it thinks will have an impact on the market in the year to come. Red Hat was on the list, alongside Sun and Microsoft, and the usual suspects like Mozilla and Alfresco. To find the “movers and the shakers” included in the the article, Linux Magazine checked in with industry experts, polled on-line readers and mined their own observations of the open source industry in recent years.
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Filed under Brand, Open Source on January 24th, 2008 | Comments Off

To Be, Rather Than to Seem

by Michael Chen, Vice President, Corporate Marketing

Red Hat is headquarted in North Carolina where the state motto is “Esse quam videri.” In Latin it means “To be, rather than to seem.” Loosely translated, it comes down to something like “Walk the walk.”

CIO Insight Magazine’s latest “Vendor Value” study ranks Red Hat as the most-valuable Enterprise Software Vendor for the fourth consecutive year, and best overall IT Vendor for the third time in four years. Ninety-seven percent of our customers said they would choose to continue to do business with us. With that kind of customer loyalty, Red Hat topped a list that included Google, Microsoft, Oracle, HP and Apple. We didn’t just outperform our competitors, we outperformed everyone. Not bad for a company with less than 2,500 employees.
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Filed under Brand, Awards on December 3rd, 2007 | Comments Off

Real Technology Lessons (in stick figure)

by Brand Team

“You want to explain virtualization with stick figures. Stick figures.”

It wasn’t an easy sell. Software companies don’t do stick figure. Obscenely large starbursts? Sure. Cheesy 3D icons? Definitely. Mick Jagger? Bring it on. But stick figures?

Well, they’re used in storyboarding for a reason. They’re simple. They’re fun to draw. And they don’t clutter up complex stories. So they are great ambassadors for talking about technology.
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Filed under Brand on March 14th, 2007 | Comments Off