History Of RedHat

Red Hat

Red Hat is one of the largest companies and is known for his dedication to the open source software. Red Hat was founded in 1993 and is headquartered in Raleigh, North Carolina, United States. Red Hat is famous for its product Red Hat Linux is one of the major Linux distributions.

History
In 1993 Bob Young founded the ACC Corporation, a catalog business that sells accessories Linux and UNIX software. In 1994 Marc Ewing create its own Linux distribution, called Red Hat Linux. Ewing released it in October of that year, and is known as the Halloween release. Young bought Ewing's business in 1995, and joined keduana become Red Hat Software with Young serving as CEO.
Shares of Red Hat went public on August 11, 1999, and became one of the largest printing-spider-in-first-day sales in the history of Wall Street. Matthew Szulik succeeded Bob Young as CEO in November of that year.
On [15 November]] in 1999, Red Hat acquired Cygnus Solutions. Cygnus Provided commercial support for free software and housed maintainers of GNU software products Such as the GNU Debugger and GNU binutils. Cygnus is a company selling support services for free software and management software such as GNU GNU Debugger and GNU binutils. Co-founder of Cygnus, Michael Tiemann, served as Chief Technical Officer of Red Hat, and from 2008 served as vice president of open source affairs. Red Hat and also acquired wirespeed, C2Net and Hell's Kitchen Systems. Red Hat also acquired Planning Technologies, Inc. in 2001 and in 2004, and directory server software, AOL iPlanet certificate.
In February 2000, InfoWorld award gives Red Hat "Operating System Product of the Year" (Operating System Product of the Year) for Red Hat Linux 6.1. Red Hat acquired Planning Technologies, Inc. in 2001 and in 2004 AOL's iPlanet directory and certificate-server software.
Red Hat moved its headquarters from Durham, NC, to NC State University Centennial Campus in Raleigh, North Carolina in February 2002.
In March next, the first time Red Hat Linux operating system introduced for large companies [1]: Red Hat Advanced Server, which then changed its name to Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). Dell, IBM, HP and Oracle Corporation announced their support of the platform.
In December 2005 CIO Insight Magazine Vendor the value of its annual survey, and put Red Hat ranked # 1 in value for the second year in a row.
Red Hat stock became part of the NASDAQ-100 on December 19, 2005.
Red Hat to buy JBoss enterprise open source software provider for the network on 5 June 5, 2006 and JBoss became part of Red Hat. In 2007, Red Hat bought MetaMatrix and made an agreement with Exadel to distribute its software.
On 18 September 2006, Red Hat released Red Hat Application Stack, the processing of data structures based on JBoss technology.
On December 12, 2006, Red Hat moved from NASDAQ (RHAT) to the New York Stock Exchange (RHT).
On March 15, 2007 Red Hat released Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, and in June, they bought Mobicents.
On March 13, 2008 Red Hat acquired Amentra, a provider of systems integration services to service-oriented architecture (SOA) for business process management, systems development and enterprise data solutions. Amentra operates as a standalone company than Red Hat.
Projects
Fedora Project
Red Hat sponsored Fedora Project, an open source project supported by the community / society that aims to promote the advancement of software development and open source content.
Fedora Project Board, which consists of community leaders and the leadership of Red Hat, lead and direct the Fedora Project, and Linux distributions are developed. Red Hat employees working with community members to create a variety of innovations in the Fedora Project are then screened for inclusion in the new release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

 One Laptop per Child (OLPC)
Red Hat technicians working in One Laptop Per Child (a nonprofit organization founded by MIT Media Lab) to design and produce a low-cost laptop for every child in the world have access to open communications, open knowledge and open learning. XO-1 laptop, computer project, using a special version of Fedora as an operating system.

 Mugshot
Red Hat sponsors Mugshot, open the project to build "an experience of social life" based entertainment. Shifting the focus of technological knowledge of the object (file, folder, etc.) to insight activities, such as web browsing or music sharing. Both are features of Mugshot, Web Swarm and Music ie Radar, whose activities had begun before the announcement of the project on the Red Hat Summit in 2006.

 Dogtail
Dogtail, automated GUI test framework open-source, originally developed by Red Hat, consisting of a free software released under GPL and written in Python. This device allows developers to build applications seklaigus test applications built on. Red Hat announced the launch of the Red Hat Summit Dogtail 2006.

 Red Hat Magazine
Red Hat Red Hat Magazine published as an online news publication. It contained issues of mutual interest within and outside the company, focusing on in-depth discussion and application development open-source technology.
Initially the company publishes a magazine called Under the Brim. Wide Open magazine first published in March 2004 as a means for Red Hat to share the technical content with subscribers on a regular basis. Magazines Under the Brim and Wide Open joined in November 2004 to become Red Hat Magazine.

 Red Hat Exchange
In 2007, Red Hat announced that it has reached an agreement with a large company producing free software (FOSS = free open-source software) to create a distribution portal called Red Hat Exchange, which will sell the original software.