Is there a leading example of an Open Source software company?
Red Hat is an example of one of the best known Open Source companies internationally. They commercially exploit Open Source technologies by providing support and services around a technology platform called Red Hat Linux. From a humble start in the 90′s, they were recently chosen for inclusion in the Standard and Poor’s 500 stock index (http://press.redhat.com/2009/07/27/red-hat-included-in-sampp-500-index). Matthew Szulik, Red Hat’s former CEO and current chairman, attributed their success to how they approach Open Source software, “Think about [open source] like mining. There’s all of these natural resources buried under the ground. But unless you have a large aggregator to pull it out of the ground; to take the gold or the coal or the copper and turn it into something usable, then it’s really not useful for mankind.” That’s exactly what Red Hat do. They take a variety of Open Source technologies and package it into a single commercial product. The revenue of different Open Source ba
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