Enterprise Linux, Subscription Sales Power Strong Red Hat Quarter
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Red Hat&#39;s Enterprise Linux operating-system and software subscription sales soared over the past three months, leading the company to strong revenue growth and profits for its fiscal 2005 second quarter.
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Linux continues to gain momentum in a Windows world, with global sales of the open-source software expected to surpass US&#36;35 billion in the next four years, according to research conducted by IDC.
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 helped both revenue and profit, the company said.
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Red Hat has announced it is changing the way it books support subscription revenue, based on a recommendation from its auditors. The accounting changes prompted the Linux supplier to correct and restate its
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US-based Red Hat Inc., the world&#39;s top distributor of open-source Linux software, expects its international business to increase to half its sales within 12 months, an executive said on Tuesday.
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(InfoWorld) - As Red Hat prepares to launch the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 operating system on Wednesday, the question is again being asked whether a robust and feature-laden operating system is really needed for some computing situations. Makers of "software appliances" are using the launch as an opportunity to predict that the days of the monolithic OS are numbered. They say the future lies in a modular system in which software runs with only enough lines of OS code to make it work. Some see promise in the appliance alternative to the OS, while skeptics think large enterprises will still need a general-purpose OS. The same questions arose recently around the launch of Microsoft's Windows Vista. A trio of Gartner analysts published a report in 2006 that said the increasing complexity of Windows makes it "unsustainable." Gartner predicted Windows will be broken up into modular components. The same could be said for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (RHEL 5), said Billy Marshall, CEO and cofounder of rPath Inc., a software appliance platform vendor. As new features are added to it, RHEL 5 has become just as unwieldy as Windows, Marshall said. "It's bigger and more bloated." OS vendors add all sorts of functionality in the event some enterprise may want it, and the addition of these features is one of the reasons why both Microsoft and Red Hat have encountered delays bringing their products to market, he said. Installing an OS could use as much as 1.82G bytes of space on a hard drive, he said. A software appliance with only the code to run one application would use just 300M bytes, he said. "The general-purpose OS model is breaking," Marshall said. Another software appliance vendor, Ingres Corp., on Feb. 27 launched a database management software appliance it calls "Icebreaker" to compete against IBM Corp.'s DB2 and Oracle Corp.'s database software. Software appliances may have a place in some niche environments in which a customer needs to run just a few pieces of software, said Jay Lyman, an analyst with The 451 Group. But a larger business would probably still need the various programs that are bundled into an OS, he said. It might be possible to run an enterprise infrastructure without an OS, Lyman said. "But then again, you've already got people [in your IT department] running the OS, and it's a pretty critical part of the infrastructure." Rather than seeing OSes fading, "I think we're seeing the trends going the other way," said Adam Jollans, director of worldwide strategy for Linux and open source at IBM. At a time when IT administrators want to get more out of their existing hardware, isolating software applications and running them only with small pieces of code seems counterproductive, Jollans said. "Many more people want to run multiple applications and do many different things. ... so I think we need the generic operating system to support all the different things people want to do," he said.
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Red Hat (Nasdaq: RHAT) is likely to release a major upgrade to its enterprise operating system in the next two weeks, according to news reports. The software is expected to fully support the Linux 2.6 kernel for the first time.
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Ubuntu and Red Hat are the most used Linux distributions among the 35,000 members of content-management vendor Alfresco's community, the company found in its second survey of trends in enterprise open-source software usage.
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(InfoWorld) - Global expansion and strong Enterprise Linux subscription sales lifted Red Hat's revenue and net income to double-digit growth for its fiscal 2008 second quarter. The company reported profit of $18.2 million, or $0.09 per share, an increase of 64 percent year over year for the quarter that ended Aug. 31. Last year for the same quarter, Red Hat reported profit of $11.04 million. Revenue for the most recent second quarter was $127.3 million, an increase of 28 percent over the same quarter last year when the company reported revenue of $99.67 million. Non-GAAP (generally accepted accounting principles) adjusted net income for the quarter was $36.9 million, or $0.17 per share, a figure in line with consensus estimates from analysts at Thomson First Call. Subscriptions revenue continued to outshine revenue from training and services, though both segments saw increases for the quarter. Revenue from subscriptions comprised $109.17 million, or 86 percent of revenue, while revenue from training and services was $18.1 million, or 14 percent. Red Hat attributed its strong growth to overseas expansion, particularly in Japan, where a Nikkei Market Access survey ranked Red Hat Japan the number-one technology vendor that customers intend to conduct business with in the future. The company also saw increases in operating margin and operating cash flow, business performance improvements that are important to Red Hat's global expansion, said Charlie Peters, executive vice president and CFO, in a statement. Non-GAAP operating margin was 20.7 percent for the quarter, an increase from 17.8 percent year over year. Non-GAAP operating cash flow was $63.7 million for the quarter, an increase of 43 percent year over year and 22 percent, sequentially. Red Hat continues to be the leading commercial provider of Linux server software, but the company also expanded its portfolio of open-source products for enterprise customers in the second quarter. Notable product releases during the quarter were JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 4.2, software infrastructure to help enterprises migrate legacy applications to an open-source platform, and a beta of Red Hat Developer Studio, a development runtime and set of open-source tools built on the popular Eclipse development framework. Red Hat also made gains in increasing support among third-party applications for Red Hat Enterprise Linux and passed the 3,000 mark for the number of applications certified to run on its enterprise OS. On a conference call Tuesday, Red Hat Chairman, CEO and President Matthew Szulik announced some changes to Red Hat's business structure as the company prepares to expand from a Linux company into a full-service enterprise software and services provider. Beginning Tuesday, the company is split into three lines of business: infrastructure, middleware, and online services. Each of those divisions will have a general manager who will be compensated on the profitability of his or her business, he said. General managers also will be responsible for product marketing, and Red Hat's Michael Chen, who is returning to the U.S. from China after a three-year stint building Red Hat's business there, is now vice president of corporate marketing, Szulik said. This story was updated on September 25, 2007
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Red Hat Inc. has announced the general release of the third update to its Enterprise Linux operating system, as well as a new partnership with recent Linux convert Unisys Corp.
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Leading distributor of Linux open source solutions to the enterprise Red Hat, Inc has entered into a definitive asset purchase agreement with America Online, Inc to acquire certain assets of Netscape Security Solutions.
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Ubuntu and Red Hat are the most used Linux distributions among the 35,000 members of content-management vendor Alfresco&#39;s community, the company found in its second survey of trends in enterprise open-source software usage.The surveys help inform Alfresco&#39;s technology strategy, according to Ian Howells, Alfresco&#39;s chief marketing officer. &quot;It&#39;s important for us to know which platforms to test against first,&quot; he said, adding, &quot;It&#39;s in users&#39; interest to give us good data.&quot;Among Linux operating systems, usage of Ubuntu and Red Hat stood at 35 percent and 23 percent, respectively, according to the survey. Suse, OpenSuse, and Suse Enterprise collectively garnered 13 percent; Debian, 15 percent; and &quot;other&quot; distributions usage of 14 percent.Users also reported using a variety of proprietary enterprise software.Among Windows users, Vista adoption was just 2 percent, compared to 63 percent for Windows XP and 28 percent for Windows Server 2003.Microsoft&#39;s Office suite remained strong, however, with 66 percent usage. Twenty-four percent of the respondents reported they used OpenOffice. However, German and French users were twice as likely to use the latter compared to those in the U.S. or U.K., Alfresco said.Tomcat held a dominant position in the application server category, logging 72 percent. JBoss&#39; entry stood at 18 percent. Entries from Sun, BEA, and IBM rounded out the field.In the virtualization category, VMware perhaps predictably ranked highest, at 61 percent. Microsoft&#39;s Virtual Server took 16 percent, followed by Xen, Parallels, Virtual Iron and &quot;other&quot; offerings, according to the study.MySQL took home the database prize, with a 60 percent tally, followed by Oracle with 14 percent and Microsoft SQL Server with 13 percent.&quot;It kind of validates that people want to have a mixed stack,&quot; Howells said of the overall results.Alfresco collected data between July and December of last year, with survey participants coming from 260 countries, according to the company. Fifty percent were from Europe, the Middle East, and Asia, while 24 percent were in the U.S., and 26 percent from other nations, Alfresco said.
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Amid uncertainty about the greater economy, technology companies are looking good to investors.Â Strong earnings from Red Hat this weekÂ and Oracle last week, continued excitement over mergers and acquisitions, and solid forecasts for global component sales have been pushing shares of tech vendors up.
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Open-source champion Red Hat has taken its new CFO from the traditional business world. Charles Peters, who becomes executive vice president and CFO of the Linux-based firm, has a solid background as a qualified
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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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Quarterly sales of servers running the Linux operating system topped $1 billionÂ for the first time during the third quarter of 2004, analyst company IDC reported Wednesday. With year-over-year revenue from Linux server sales up 42.6 percent, Linux accounted for more than 9 percent of the $11.5 billion in servers sold worldwide during the quarter, which ended Sept. 30, the research firm said.ADVERTISEMENTSolaris 10(TM) OS: Position your business ten moves ahead.Solaris 10 OS has arrived and provides even more reasons for the world's most demanding businesses to operate on this, the leading UNIX platform. Like the fact you can run Linux and Solaris applications side-by-side and run the same OS on SPARC(R), AMD Opteron(TM), and Intel processor-based systems. Discover more reasons and how Solaris 10 OS can move your business ahead today.
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End-user adoption of Linux servers for enterprise workloads hosting ISV applications and databases is ramping up rapidly, with newly published data indicating that uptake of the operating system has doubled over the past year.