Red hat
| Red Hat, Inc.
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| legal form | Corporation |
| ISIN | US7565771026 |
| founding | 1993 |
| Seat |
 Raleigh , North Carolina
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| management | Jim Whitehurst ( CEO ) |
| Number of employees | approx. 13,000 (as of November 30, 2018) |
| sales | 3.4 billion US dollars (as of 25/03/2018) |
| Branch | software |
| Website | www.redhat.com/de |
The company Red Hat ( eng . : red hat ) is an American software manufacturer based in Raleigh , North Carolina , which, among other things, sells the widely used Linux distribution Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and is involved in the Fedora project . Formerly was Red Hat Linux (RHL) Red Hat sold. In addition, Red Hat offers solutions in the areas of middleware, virtualization, cloud computing, storage, mobile, containers ( OpenShift ), management as well as support, training and consulting services. The shares of Red Hat Inc. were traded on the US stock exchange NYSE until the takeover by IBM .
Company history
Red Hat was founded in 1993 by Marc Ewing and merged with the ACC owned by Canadian Bob Young in 1995 . Young took over as CEO of the company , which was transferred to Matthew J. Szulik in 1999 , who led the company until the end of 2007.
In July 1999, the Stuttgart-based company Delix, manufacturer of the German Linux Distribution (DLD), from which Red Hat GmbH emerged, was taken over. On August 11, 1999, Red Hat went public with an initial public offering of six million shares at a price of $ 14 per share on the NASDAQ stock exchange . On November 15, 1999, Red Hat announced that it would take over open source developer Cygnus Solutions. Red Hat has been responsible for Cygwin since then . Other takeovers followed, including ArsDigita, Sistina and those of the Netscape Directory Server.
In 2003, Red Hat decided to focus only on corporate customers. Therefore, the further development of Red Hat Linux (RHL) has been formally handed over to the community project Fedora . Fedora's core team continues to consist of Red Hat paid developers. However, opportunities for volunteer participation have become more extensive than before. Red Hat's premium product Red Hat Enterprise Linux is based on the Fedora code . (RHEL) On October 19, 2005, company co-founder Bob Young left Red Hat to pursue private projects.
In 2005, Red Hat was the market leader in Linux distributions for servers. Red Hat has approximately 10,700 employees and 90 offices worldwide. The headquarters are in Raleigh (North Carolina) in the USA .
The company is active in the development, implementation and management of Linux and open source solutions for network infrastructures. The product range extends from embedded systems to web servers and includes additional support, training and management offers.
In June 2006, Red Hat completed the acquisition of JBoss, the world's leading provider of open source middleware , to accelerate the move towards service-oriented architectures (SOA). Red Hat also enables web-enabled applications to be operated on an open source platform.
After Szulik stepped down, Jim Whitehurst succeeded him as CEO and President in 2008.
In 2017, Red Hat was once again among the top 25 in Forbes' list of the 100 most innovative companies in the world, ranking 23rd.
Takeover by IBM
On October 28, 2018, Red Hat announced that IBM would acquire Red Hat for $ 190 per share, subject to approval by Red Hat shareholders. That corresponds to an enterprise value of approximately 34 billion US dollars. The companies completed the acquisition in July 2019 [obsolete] after approval by the relevant authorities . At the end of November 2018, it was announced that Red Hat had acquired the Israeli start-up NooBaa as part of the takeover by IBM.
On May 1, 2019, Red Hat introduced a new company logo that only includes a red hat without the person underneath. With the simplified logo, display problems with small scaling and negative associations are to be avoided.
Contribution to the Linux kernel
Red Hat developers regularly make a lot of contributions to the Linux kernel . According to the analysis published by the Linux Foundation in 2016, Red Hat contributed 8 percent of the commits to the kernels 3.19 - 4.7 the second most frequently (behind Intel ). In the 2017 report, Redhat is also in third place with 7.2% of the commits to the kernels 4.8-4.13.
Products
The products are developed and distributed as commercial software , most of which are closely related to the Fedora project .
One of the products on offer is a Linux operating system. The development takes place within the framework of the Fedora project (formerly Fedora Core). The marketed variant with adaptations and better tested versions of software packages is called Red Hat Enterprise Linux ( RHEL ).
With the JBoss Enterprise Middleware Suite (JEMS), Red Hat offers solutions in the areas of Java EE application server (JBoss EAP based on the WildFly Application Server), object / relational persistence ( Hibernate ), portal platform ( JBoss Portal ), workflow / Business Process Management / BPEL (JBoss jBPM ), Business Rules (JBoss Rules), Object Data Cache (JBoss Cache), Distributed Transaction Management (JBoss Transactions), Enterprise Messaging (JBoss Messaging) and Development Tools (JBoss Eclipse IDE) on.
The LDAP-compatible directory service acquired by Netscape is being developed as part of the Fedora Directory Server project and is commercially available as Red Hat Directory Server . The certification system ( Red Hat Certificate System ) that was also acquired is in charge of the Dogtag Certificate System project .
We are currently working on a comprehensive, centralized management platform for various operating systems and platforms: FreeIPA . It combines technologies such as Kerberos , LDAP , DNS and NTP and includes the areas of "identity control" (identity), "guidelines" (policy) and "monitoring" (audit) of a heterogeneous client / server computer landscape.
The Global File System (GFS) and the Cluster Suite are also worth mentioning .
Red Hat also supports many other open source projects such as Samba and OpenJDK in the form of IcedTea . Red Hat is a founding member of the Open Source Business Alliance , formerly Lisog .
Portfolio
The product portfolio includes the following components:
- Linux platforms
- JBoss middleware
- Virtualization
- Cloud computing
- Storage
- Mobile platform
- Infrastructure and cloud management
- Services (Red Hat Open Innovation Labs, Red Hat Training and Certification and Red Hat Consulting)
marketing
What all products have in common is that they are designed for business customers and can only be purchased with support contracts. The Red Hat Network is a core component of customer support . Red Hat does not offer end-user products. Red Hat also finances itself through consulting, training, and management of existing solutions and certifications.
Example: To support enterprise customers, system integrators and software manufacturers in maximizing the return on investment through the use of JBoss Enterprise Middleware Suite products, Red Hat offers a comprehensive service portfolio of technical support in the form of its subsidiary JBoss ( JBoss Subscription), consulting, training and certification.
In China, Red Hat has partnered with the Red Flag Linux distribution .
Certificates from Red Hat
Red Hat offers certifications for Linux administrators, for example:
- Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA)
- Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE)
- Red Hat Certified Architect (RHCA)
- RHCA: cloud
- RHCA: data center
- RHCA: Application Platform
- RHCA: Application Development
- RHCA: DevOps
- Red Hat Certified Engineer in Red Hat OpenStack
- Red Hat Certificate of Expertise in Containerized Application Development
- Red Hat Certificate of Expertise in Platform-as-a-Service
- Red Hat Certificate of Expertise in Ansible Automation
Fedora
Red Hat sponsors the Fedora Project, a community-run Linux distribution that focuses on the use of free software. Some management positions in the Fedora project are held by Red Hat employees. New technologies in Fedora can be tested by the community before they are used in Fedora-based Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Web links
- Red Hat website
- History of Red Hat Linux (English)
- Overview of Red Hat products and solutions (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Management: James Whitehurst , accessed January 25, 2017
- ↑ https://investors.redhat.com/investor-story/red-hat-at-a-glance
- ↑ https://investors.redhat.com/news-and-events/press-releases/2019/03-25-2019-201454520
- ↑ https://www.redhat.com/de/technologies/all-products
- ↑ https://www.redhat.com/de/services
- ^ Colin Phipps: Strong growth for Debian . netcraft.com, December 5, 2005
- ↑ https://investors.redhat.com/investor-story/red-hat-at-a-glance
- ↑ Innovative companies (English) forbes.com. Retrieved October 4, 2019.
- ↑ Cloud wedding: IBM completes acquisition of Red Hat , article on heise.de of July 9, 2019, accessed on September 4, 2019.
- ↑ Red Hat invests in cross-platform data management . heise.de. Retrieved November 28, 2018.
- ^ Announcing the next evolution of our red fedora mark. Retrieved May 3, 2019 .
- ↑ Linux Kernel Development Report 2016. Linux Foundation, 2016, accessed on February 4, 2018 .
- ↑ Linux Kernel Development Report 2017. Linux Foundation, 2017, accessed on February 4, 2018 .
- ↑ https://www.redhat.com/de/technologies/all-products
- ↑ All certifications and exams. Red Hat Inc., accessed December 7, 2017 .