I was waiting for redHat to come out of the closet for a while.
I believe publishing some numbers (as opposed to keeping them
a secret) is the _one_ of the prereqs for being taken seriously
by analysts like IDC and Fortune 500 companies.
In the article:
http://www.sjmercury.com/business/tech/docs/078480.htm
The San Jose Mercury today says:
Red Hat software takes on the big guys
BY JOEL B. OBERMAYER
Raleigh News & Observer
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. -- Don't
mess with Microsoft. It's the cardinal rule of the
software industry. Plenty of promising companies
have crashed when they collided with the
Redmond, Wash.-based giant.
Yet there's a small, fast-growing Triangle
company making a living aggressively pushing in
the area Microsoft dominates: the operating
systems that run personal computers.
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Red Hat's sales of Linux products have doubled
every 12 months, putting it on target to ship
400,000 Linux CD-ROMs this year and reach
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more than $10 million in sales, according to Young.
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He said the company has been profitable every year.
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The competition with Microsoft isn't a problem,
either. Microsoft is unlikely to offer technical users
the control they want, he said.
``The only way you can compete against a
monopoly is to change the rules on which the game
is played,'' Young said. ``It allows me to sleep at
night knowing we compete under different rules.''
In a separate news article Linux was mentioned for the _first_ time
by IDC and was estimated at 6.8% of the server operating system
market, after NT, Novell NetWare, and "Unix" :-)
I think this is cool :-)
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Peace, Ariel
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