Red Hat sees half of sales outside U.S. within a year
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Demand for the Linux OS is gathering steam as it becomes more popular outside its core market of computer enthusiasts, helped in part by interest in open-source software from European governments.
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It plans to begin manufacturing in India in the first half of next year, with an initial focus on the production of desktop computers.
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com December 22, 2004, 2:57 PM PT. Linux seller Red Hat reported on Wednesday that its third-quarter net income jumped 155 percent year-over-year to $10.8 million, as its software business matured.
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InfoWorld - Red Hat has set up an engineering and support center in Pune, India, to provide support for its customers in India and in English-speaking markets worldwide. Red Hat already has three support centers in North America, the U.K., and Australia which provide support in their respective regions. The center in India will enable the company to offer around-the-clock support to customers worldwide, Red Hat said. The center will also have a test lab for hardware and software certification, and will house a team that will work on localization of Red Hat Enterprise Linux in Indian languages. Open source vendors like Red Hat and proprietary software vendors like Microsoft are vying for a number of federal and state e-government projects in India, as well as a number of large private-sector deals.
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Software maker Red Hat Inc. ,  which had planned to introduce a new version of its Linux  software for personal computers in August, said on Tuesday that  the product won't be out until next month at the earliest.
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Dell plans to sell computers with preinstalled Linux outside the U.S. as well as offer the Ubuntu Linux distribution to small business customers.
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(InfoWorld) - The release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 in March should strengthen Red Hat's lead in the open-source software market and fend off challenges from Oracle, Microsoft, and Novell, an industry analyst said. After meeting with Red Hat executives Friday, W.R. Hambrecht & Co. financial analyst Robert Stimson wrote in a research note Monday that he is "confident that Red Hat will remain the premier Linux player despite recent competitive hoopla." Red Hat's stock price declined in October 2006 whenÂ Oracle announced it would undercut Red HatÂ on the price of support for Red Hat's open source Linux distribution. That was followed in November by news ofÂ a collaboration between Microsoft and Novell. Microsoft said it would work with the Linux distributor to make Windows interoperable with SUSE Linux. Microsoft said it will also help market SUSE to its customers. While those developments caused Red Hat's stock price to dip below $15 a share, from $27 before the news, they "have had little to no effect on Red Hat's underlying fundamentals," Stimson wrote. Red Hat stock closed Monday at $22.54. Hambrecht forecasts Red Hat to finish fiscal 2007, which ends Feb. 28, with earnings per share of $0.51 on revenue of $401.6 million, up from $0.39 a share on revenue of $278.3 million in fiscal 2006. Expected new features of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 include an integrated server and storage virtualization capability that should be competitive with industry-leading virtualization software from VMware, Stimson said in an interview. Red Hat 's virtualization software uses just 3 percent to 4 percent of a server's CPU to run, versus 20 percent or more for VMware, he said. That makes Red Hat better able to run multiple software applications on one physical server. Stimson considers the competition from Oracle and Microsoft/Novell "a nonevent so far" as he's seen little evidence that Oracle is winning support business away from Red Hat. Oracle did not reply to a request for comment. Stimson has seen a "backlash" in the open-source community to the Microsoft/Novell arrangement. He noted that all five members of a Novell software development team quit Novell after the Microsoft deal was announced, and four of them went to Red Hat. They were working on the Samba Project, developing an open-source file and print server software product than can run on a Windows operating system. "I think (Microsoft/Novell) is tainted now because I think they are violating [the] GPL," said Jeremy Allison, the fifth member of the team to quit Novell in December 2006. He went to Google but emphasized that he was not speaking for Google on this subject. GPL stands for General Public License, the contract that keeps open-source software open. Analyst Stimson said the Microsoft/Novell partnership has only strengthened Red Hat's position in the market because of the reaction from others in the open-source community.
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This fourth priority&#39;s main focus has been improving or obtaining CRM and ERP software for the past year and a half. Red Hat&#39;s quarterly profit rose on firm demand for its updates and services for Linux, the distributor of Linux software said on Monday.
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Korean chipmaker expects global sales will halve next year; sales growth could be in single digit. SEOUL  - Growth in global semiconductor sales will probably halve next year and memory chip sales
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The company behind China's leading Linux client distribution, Red Flag Software Co. Ltd., is shifting its main focus to its server operating system and enterprise customers, and planning to expand sales overseas, the company's acting president said in an interview on Friday.
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Red Hat Inc., which distributes Linux software, on Monday said fiscal second-quarter profit more than tripled from a year ago as the company saw demand grow during the period.
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Quarterly sales of servers running Linux have topped US$1 billion for the first time. According to analyst company IDC, sales during the third quarter of 2004 hit $1.06
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Global sales of microchips are expected to rise about 10 percent to $273.8 billion this year after increasing 8.9 percent to $247.7 billion in 2006, an industry group said on Friday.
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Although Linux may be shipping on a growing number of PCs sold in the emerging markets of Asia, Latin America, and Eastern Europe, about 80% of PCs shipped with the open source operating system this year will eventually run pirated versions of Windows
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Linux seller Red Hat reported on Wednesday that its third-quarter net income jumped 155 percent year-over-year to $10.8 million, as its software business matured.
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CINCINNATI -- Challenged by a troubled U.S. economy and the steeply falling dollar, a growing number of U.S. manufacturers are making up for slowing domestic sales by expanding them overseas, often with sophisticated products.
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SAN FRANCISCO (CBS.MW) -- Global semiconductor sales are expected to be flat in 2005, below previous forecasts, and growth won&#39;t reach double digits again until 2007, a trade group said late Wednesday.