Red Hat
The company Red Hat is an American software company headquartered in Raleigh, North Carolina, among other things, the widespread distribution of Linux Red Hat Enterprise Linux distributes and is involved in the Fedora Project. Previously also was Red Hat Linux Red Hat distributed. Shares of Red Hat, Inc. are traded on the NYSE U.S. stock exchange.
Company History
The company Red Hat was founded in 1993 by Marc Ewing and graduated in 1995 with the company ACC Canadian Bob Young together. Young took over the company as CEO, based on Matthew J. Szulik passed in 1999, which the company board by the end of 2007.
In July 1999, the Stuttgart-based company was taken over Delix, manufacturer Deutsche Linux Distribution ( DLD ), from which then the Red Hat, Inc. emerged. On August 11, 1999 Red Hat went with an initial public offering of six million shares at a price of $ 14 per share on the NASDAQ stock exchange. On 15 November 1999 Red Hat had announced that they would take over the open- source developers Cygnus Solutions. Red Hat has been responsible for Cygwin. Other acquisitions followed, including. Among other ArsDigita, Sistina and the Netscape Directory Server
2003 Red Hat decided, in the future need only focus on enterprise customers that generate most of the Red Hat sales. For this reason, the development of Red Hat Linux was ( RHL ) submitted formally to the Fedora community project. Here, the core team of Fedora continues to consist of Red Hat paid developers, the possibility of participation by volunteers, however, is much larger and more extensive than before. On the Fedora - based Red Hat code base since premium product for enterprise customers, Red Hat Enterprise Linux. (RHEL ) On 19 October 2005, the Company co-founder Bob Young left the company to pursue personal projects.
Today Red Hat is the leader in the Linux distributions for servers. Red Hat has over 6000 employees worldwide and 70 offices. The headquarters is located in Raleigh (North Carolina) in the USA.
The company is active in the fields of development, deployment and management of Linux and open source solutions for network infrastructures. The product offering ranges from embedded systems to Web servers, and includes additional support, training and management services.
Red Hat has completed the acquisition of JBoss in June 2006. Through the acquisition of JBoss, the world's leading provider of open source middleware, Red Hat development towards Service -Oriented Architectures (SOA ) accelerate. The company thus enables the operation of web-enabled applications on an open- source platform.
Following the resignation of Szulik Jim Whitehurst entered the year 2008, its successor as CEO and president.
2010 Red Hat was once again in the Top 10 list of companies that made the most commits to the Linux kernel. 12.4 percent of the work on the kernel derived from programmers who are paid by Red Hat. Thus, they are in second place, according to the group of unpaid contributors.
Products
The products are developed and marketed, the most closely related to the Fedora Project as commercial software.
Products on offer for a part of a GNU / Linux operating system. The development takes place within the Fedora project (formerly Fedora Core). The marketed version with adjustments and better tested versions of software packages is called Red Hat Enterprise Linux ( RHEL).
With the JBoss Enterprise Middleware Suite (JEMS ), Red Hat offers solutions in the areas of application servers (JBoss Application Server, Apache Tomcat), Objekt-/relationale Persistence ( Hibernate ), Portal Platform (JBoss Portal), Workflow / Business Process Management / BPEL (JBoss jBPM ), Business Rules ( JBoss Rules ), object data cache (JBoss cache), Distributed transaction Management ( JBoss Transactions ), Enterprise messaging ( JBoss Messaging ) and development tools (JBoss Eclipse IDE ) to.
The acquired Netscape LDAP - compliant directory service is developed within the Fedora Directory server project and is commercially Red Hat Directory Server. This also acquired certification system ( Red Hat Certificate System) supervises the project Dogtag Certificate System.
Currently is also working on a comprehensive, centralized management platform for various operating systems and platforms: FreeIPA. It combines techniques such as Kerberos, LDAP, DNS, and NTP and includes the areas of " identity check " ( Identity ) "Guidelines" (Policy ) and " monitoring" (audit ) of a heterogeneous client / server computing landscape.
Also worth mentioning are the Global File System (GFS ) and Cluster Suite.
Furthermore, Red Hat many other open source projects like the Linux kernel, samba and OpenJDK in the form of IcedTea. Red Hat is a founding member of the Open Source Business Alliance, formerly Lisog.
Marketing
All products have in common is that they are designed for business customers and to acquire only with support contracts. A core component of customer support represents the Red Hat Network dar. products for end users, Red Hat is currently not available. The company also finances itself through consulting, training and management of existing solutions and certifications.
Example: support order enterprise customers, system integrators and software vendors optimal in maximizing the return on investment through the use of the JBoss Enterprise Middleware Suite products, Red Hat in the form of the subsidiary JBoss a comprehensive portfolio of services from technical support to (JBoss subscription), consulting, training and certification.
In China, Red Hat is a partnership with the Red Flag Linux distribution received.
Red Hat Certificates
Red Hat also offers six certifications for their distribution to:
- Red Hat Certified System Administrator ( RHCSA )
- Red Hat Certified Engineer ( RHCE )
- Red Hat Certified Virtualization Administrator ( RHCVA )
- Red Hat Certified Datacenter Specialist ( RHCDS )
- Red Hat Certified Security Specialist ( RHCSS )
- Red Hat Certified Architect ( RHCA )
These certificates are no additions to the LPI, but independent certifications.
Additional certifications are offered for the JBoss Application Server.
Fedora
Red Hat sponsors the Fedora Project, a community- supported Linux distribution whose focus is on the use of current and free software. Some leadership positions within the Fedora Project are Red Hat employees busy. Thus, it is possible to use new techniques in Fedora and to get tested by the community before it in Red Hat Enterprise Linux, which is based on Fedora, are used.
Red Hat derivatives
- CentOS: Widespread Enterprise Distribution
- Conectiva: In Latin America and the Iberian Peninsula spread
- EnGarde: Secure Linux Server
- Fedora, Red Hat as a community project
- Oracle Linux
- Scientific Linux: Developed esp. from Fermilab and CERN
- Vietkey: Vietnamese localization