Quest Software Demonstrates Open Source Absorption

Dennis Byron submits: I took flak recently concerning a blog post that said that Red Hat (RHT) was no different than

By Investors Mosaic:Red Hat (RHT) is one of the most unique and defensive business models in technology. If you don't know Red Hat, they are the leader in providing open source software technologies to enterprise customers. They offer an enterprise operating system platform - Red Hat Enterprise Linux, JBoss Middleware, virtualization, cloud and storage offerings.

By Dana Blankenhorn: Cloud is not the biggest threat to enterprise software companies like Oracle (ORCL), Microsoft (MSFT) and SAP (SAP). It's open source.

Pierr Johnson submits:Oracle (ORCL) has decided to cease support for Intel’s (INTC) Itanium processor, which is used in the high-value, low-unit market for Unix Servers. The company says Intel itself plans to do the same and Microsoft (MSFT) and Red Hat (RHT) have alrea

By AnalytixInsight: Red Hat Inc. (RHT) reports preliminary financial results for the quarter ended 2012-08-31. Red Hat Inc. recently reported its preliminary financial results based on which CapitalCube provides a unique peer-based analysis of the company. Our analysis is based on the company's performance over the last twelve months (unless stated otherwise).

By Dana Blankenhorn: Cloud. Don't think of Red Hat (RHT) as a Linux company, an open source company or an operating system vendor. Think of it as a cloud software leader. If you want to build a reliable cloud, one that can hold your enterprise applications, you are probably doing business with Red Hat, and will only do more in the future.

Red Hat, the first and only open source software company to reach over $1 billion in revenue, is still on track to nearly triple its revenue to $3 billion by 2016,  CEO Jim Whitehurst said in an interview.

By Dana Blankenhorn: There's a huge new market developing in single-chip devices that monitor conditions and report back over wireless networks. I began covering it in 2002 as “the world of Always On,” because such devices would always be active, but it's now generally known as The Internet of Things or the Embedded Devices market.