Red Hat Reports First Quarter Results

[Posted July 5, 2010 by ris]

Red Hat has announced financial results for its fiscal year 2011 first quarter ended May 31, 2010. ""We had a strong start to our fiscal year with 20% organic revenue growth and 28% non-GAAP operating income growth," stated Jim Whitehurst, President and Chief Executive Officer of Red Hat. "We executed well and achieved a significant increase in the number of large deals booked year-over- year, including several with an initial consulting component which we believe is a positive indicator of new project spending and future subscription billings.""

Red Hat Reports First Quarter Results

Posted Jul 8, 2010 8:12 UTC (Thu) by danielpf (guest, #4723) [Link] (4 responses)

IMHO Red Hat and Mandriva should merge! Red Hat has a solid business model and Mandriva has a better desktop product.

Red Hat Reports First Quarter Results

Posted Jul 8, 2010 8:33 UTC (Thu) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link] (3 responses)

Does the "better" desktop product help the solid business model?

Red Hat Reports First Quarter Results

Posted Jul 9, 2010 18:56 UTC (Fri) by sgros (guest, #36440) [Link] (2 responses)

Well, I have an opportunity to work for a company that deployed RedHat company wide and quickly replaced RHEL on workstations with Ubuntu because the distribution was too conservative for a desktop and a new hardware. Still, they retained RedHat on servers (which is basically my part of a responsibility). So, there could be a business model for a more modern desktop...

Red Hat Reports First Quarter Results

Posted Jul 9, 2010 19:09 UTC (Fri) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link] (1 responses)

Do they pay anyone for desktop support? More usage of a free distribution isn't a business model.

Red Hat Reports First Quarter Results

Posted Jul 10, 2010 6:14 UTC (Sat) by sgros (guest, #36440) [Link]

They did pay for RHEL on desktop, but now they have in house support for Ubuntu. And even though expenses could be a reason for a switch, RHEL on desktop wasn't so expensive. One of the problems they had was with UMTS cards. Another one with authentication when laptops are away from the company. There were also some other sw components they had to install manually. Also, on Ubuntu they are using hard disk encryption which I don't know if it is supported on RHEL5. In the end, maybe commercial desktop distribution should be somewhere between RHEL and Fedora?

But, this is only my opinion that could be wrong, and probably is, as there could be other factors that influenced this decision I'm not aware of.

Hope this answered your question...