Red Hat Reaches Adulthood
Linux is all grown up these days.
Once, it was the Little Penguin That Could, mostly a hobby platform for system administrators to play around with on the side, or powering workstations rather than servers. Real business happened on proper Unix systems from Hewlett-Packard, or Sun, or IBM, if not on the mainframe.
That's not the case anymore. Lend your ear to Red Hat's (NYSE: RHT) earnings call from last night, where CEO Matt Szulik painted a very different picture of Linux usage. Matt asked us to imagine an airliner taking you somewhere, where the navigation systems, reservations, weather information, and transaction processing for that Sky Mall purchase are all powered by servers running Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
It may sound like conjecture, but it's the way things are going these days. Unix isn't dead yet, but Sun released the code for its Solaris operating system a couple of years ago, under one of the many open-source licenses. There are so many advantages to the open-source model, including low costs, quick fixes to code problems, and the ability to add new features yourself. Red Hat has been leading the way for over a decade, and is now reaping the benefits of mass-market acceptance.
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