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'''Bill Subritzky''', from [[Auckland]], [[New Zealand]], was a lawyer and property developer from the mid 1950s until the mid 1980s. In 1971 he became involved in the [[Charismatic movement]], and became a well-known independent evangelist and healer in many parts of New Zealand and beyond. His company, [[Universal Homes]], mass-produced homes in standard designs and sold them relatively cheaply. It sold 14,000 homes over the 30-year period of Subritzky's involvement.

company_type = Public ([[NASDAQ]]:[http://quotes.nasdaq.com/asp/SummaryQuote.asp?symbol=RHAT&selected=RHAT RHAT]) |

company_logo = [[Image:Redhat_Logo.svg|200px|Red Hat logo]] |

company_slogan = ??? |

foundation = [[1993]] |

___location = [[Raleigh, North Carolina]] |

key_people = [[Matthew Szulik]], Chairman, President, CEO<br />[[Marc Ewing]], Founder<br />[[Brian Stevens]], CTO |

num_employees = ~1200 ([[2006]]) |

revenue = {{profit}}$196.47 million [[United States dollar|USD]] ([[2005]]) |

industry = [[Computer software]]|

products = [[Fedora Core]]<br />[[Red Hat Enterprise Linux]] |

homepage = [http://www.redhat.com/ http://www.redhat.com]

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'''Red Hat, Inc.''' ({{nasdaq|RHAT}}) is one of the largest and most recognized companies dedicated to [[open source]] [[software]]. Founded in [[1993]], the company has nearly 1,300 [[employee]]s and 27 offices worldwide, with its corporate headquarters in [[Raleigh, North Carolina]] in the [[United States]]. Red Hat is a market leader in the development, deployment, and management of [[Linux]] and [[open source]] solutions for [[Internet]] infrastructure, ranging from [[embedded systems|embedded devices]] to secure [[web server]]s.

Subritzky's [[faith healing]] ministry, Dove Ministries, distributes pamphlets, books, videos etc. of his teaching and his evangelistic healing meetings. He is a [[Charismatic movement|charismatic]] [[Anglican]] but the style of his ministry is more similar to [[Pentecostal]]s such as the late [[Derek Prince]].

Red Hat's name came from the manual of the beta version, which contained a request for the return of [[Marc Ewing]]'s characteristic [[red]] and [[white]]-striped [[Fedora (hat)|fedora]], should anyone find it. The name is often spelled '''Redhat''' or '''RedHat''', perhaps owing to the [[CamelCase]] fad of the late-[[1990s]].

Subritzky was a proponent of the [[Toronto Blessing]] and its introduction into New Zealand. He frequently attributes problems, whether physical, spiritual, emotional or psychological, to the influence of [[demon]]s, which he claims to "cast out". He also claims to have insight through the "[[word of knowledge]]" into people's sins, etc., which have made them vulnerable to demonic influence. Concerns have been raised about the possible harm this can do, but his popularity appears undiminished. Skeptics have questioned his claim that he has ability to cure ailments such as asthma, arthritis and cancer. <ref>{{cite news | last = | first = | coauthors = | title = Sceptics question faith healing | work = | pages = | publisher = [[Television New Zealand]] | date = 2006-10-24 | url = http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/411419/868561 | accessdate = }}</ref>

The name "Red Hat" is also frequently used to refer to the two variants of Linux the company produces under that name, [[Red Hat Enterprise Linux]] and the now-superseded [[Red Hat Linux]].

==HistoryReferences==

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Red Hat was founded by [[entrepreneur]] [[Marc Ewing]] in [[1993]], and in [[1995]] Red Hat was bought out by [[ACC Bookstores]], run by [[Canada|Canadian]] [[Bob Young]]. Young then took the role as [[CEO]] of the company, until he was succeeded by [[Matthew Szulik]] in 1999.

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On [[August 11]], [[1999]], the company completed its [[initial public offering]] of six million shares of common stock at a price of $14 per share on the [[NASDAQ]]. On [[November 15]], [[1999]], Red Hat announced its merger with Cygnus Solutions, a leading open source vendor. Consequently, Red Hat now develops [[Cygwin]]. Other acquisitions have followed, notably those of [[ArsDigita Corporation|ArsDigita]], [[Sistina Software|Sistina]] and [[Netscape]] Directory Server.

*[http://www.doveministries.com Dove Ministries]

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Red Hat stock was added to the [[NASDAQ-100]] on [[December 19]], [[2005]].

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=== Cygnus Solutions ===

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'''Cygnus Solutions''', originally '''Cygnus Support''', was founded in [[1989]] by [[John Gilmore (advocate)|John Gilmore]], [[Michael Tiemann]] and [[David Henkel-Wallace]] to provide commercial support for [[free software]]. Its tagline was: ''Making free software affordable''.

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For years, employees of Cygnus Solutions were the maintainers of several key [[GNU]] software products, including the [[GNU Debugger]] and [[GNU Binutils]] (which included the [[GNU Assembler]] and [[GNU Linker|Linker]]). It was also a major contributor to the [[GNU Compiler Collection|GCC]] project. Cygnus developed [[Binary File Descriptor|BFD]], and used it to help port GNU to many architectures, in a number of cases working under [[Non-disclosure agreement|non-disclosure]] to produce tools used for initial bringup of [[software]] for a new chip design.

Cygnus was also the original developer of [[Cygwin]], a [[POSIX]] layer and the [[GNU]] toolkit port to the [[Microsoft Windows]] [[operating system]] family.

On [[November 15]], [[1999]], Cygnus Solutions announced its merger with Red Hat, and ceased to exist as a separate company in early [[2000]]. [[As of 2003]], a number of Cygnus employees continue to work for Red Hat, including Tiemann who serves as Red Hat's Vice President of Open Source Affairs and formerly served as CTO.

=== JBoss ===

[[JBoss]] was a startup devoted to produce an [[Application Server]] on top of Linux systems, and has become a well known provider of open source middleware. The acquisition by Red Hat was announced in April 2006 and the deal closed on June 5. It is now a division of Red Hat.

==Business model==

Open source software lies at the foundation of their [[business model]]. The code that makes up the software is available to anyone, and developers who use it may freely make improvements. Even competitors like [[Microsoft]] admit that the result is rapid innovation (compare the [[Halloween documents]]).

Red Hat solutions combine [[GNU]]/[[Linux]], developer and embedded technologies, training, management services and technical support. Red Hat optionally delivers this open source innovation to their customers via an [[Internet]] platform called [[Red Hat Network]].

Although dedicated to open source, Red Hat, Inc has one US [[patent]] for a [[debugger]] system (US6,754,891 [http://v3.espacenet.com/textdoc?DB=EPODOC&IDX=US6754891&F=0]), one [[European Patent Convention|European patent]] (EP1312195 [http://v3.espacenet.com/textdoc?DB=EPODOC&IDX=EP1312195&F=0] [http://ofi.epoline.org/view/GetDossier?dosnum=&pubnum=EP1312195&lang=EN]) and several US [[patent application]]s pending (US2004143687 [http://v3.espacenet.com/textdoc?DB=EPODOC&IDX=US2004143687&F=0], US2004153483 [http://v3.espacenet.com/textdoc?DB=EPODOC&IDX=US2004153483&F=0], US2004143776 [http://v3.espacenet.com/textdoc?DB=EPODOC&IDX=US2004143776&F=0], US2004158717 [http://v3.espacenet.com/textdoc?DB=EPODOC&IDX=US2004158717&F=0], US2005021637 [http://v3.espacenet.com/textdoc?DB=EPODOC&IDX=US2005021637&F=0], US2005071371 [http://v3.espacenet.com/textdoc?DB=EPODOC&IDX=US2005071371&F=0]). They also use [[trademark]] claims to prevent third parties from redistributing the company's software using the name "Red Hat". ([http://www.redhat.com/about/corporate/trademark/]). Not everybody approves of this (see [http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/12/10/2014239&mode=thread]

or even [http://www.livejournal.com/users/nugget/2003/06/11/], for example). In response to the controversy, the company has placed a public pledge [http://www.redhat.com/legal/patent_policy.html on its website] never to assert patent claims against software released under any open source license that Red Hat itself uses in its own products (including other works bundled with their products like [[KDE]]). Despite these issues, the company is still largely regarded as a leading supporter of free software and a significant contributor to the open source community.

==Fedora==

[[Red Hat Linux]] used to be the company's flagship product for both home and corporate use. With the spinoff of [[Red Hat Enterprise Linux]], Red Hat began to focus more on the corporate market, and stopped production of the personal version of Red Hat Linux after version 9. The current consumer distribution of Red Hat Linux has been replaced by [[Fedora Core]], a more rapidly updated community supported [[Linux distribution]], sponsored by Red Hat, run by the [[Fedora Project]], and in part derived from the original Red Hat Linux distribution. The bulk of Red Hat's revenue comes from corporations who pay yearly support subscriptions for the enterprise version of the product.

==External links==

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*[http://www.redhat.com/ Red Hat's website]

*[http://www.redhat.com/docs/ Red Hat Documentation]

*[http://fedoraproject.org Fedora Project website]

*[http://www.redhat.com/magazine/002dec04/features/name/ How Red Hat Got Its Name, as told by Bob Young]

*[http://searchenterpriselinux.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid39_gci936499,00.html Red Hat's plans to drop support for Red Hat Linux, by Jan Stafford]

*[http://seekingalpha.com/transcripts/for/rhat Most recent Red Hat quarterly conference call transcript]

*[http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/opensources/book/tiemans.html Future of Cygnus Solutions: An Entrepreneur's Account, by Michael Tiemann (1999)]

*[http://linuxmafia.com/faq/RedHat/rh-releases.html Red Hat release dates]

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