Red Hat Looks to Evolve Beyond Linux Roots
Promising to increase the business savvy of Red Hat's corporate culture, CEO Jim Whitehurst is already thinking big.
Software and open source competitors should keep a wary eye on Red Hat, according to an article published today in Network World.
Specifically, he's branding Windows / Microsoft as bloated software that locks in CIOs, while at the same time talking up Red Hat's excellence in the fields of middleware, virtualization and software-as-a-service.
Other goals that Red Hat is gearing itself towards:
-- Growing in-server market share.
-- Establishing itself as the leader in service-oriented architecture (SOA) and the clear application server front-runner.
-- Re-accelerating the company's long-range growth rate and re-establishing Red Hat's position as a large growth company.
These bold initiatives are what Red Hat believes it requires as it looks to evolve past its Linux operating system roots.
The company wants to mix the Linux operating system, virtualization, middleware, independent software vendor (ISV) applications and software delivered as services into an enterprise data center platform.
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