aa little tingly warm feeling in my stomach

Linux connection.

While many enterprises still use Windows on the desktop, many backoffice operations such as storage devices, networking apps, etc run on top of open source operating system Linux. RHAT is the go-to company for installing, consulting, and building Linux-based applications. Its often directly competing against MSFT for who controls the operating systems of every machine in the enterprise. Growth is still strong, with revenues expected to go from $400mm this year to $513mm in 2008.

From Business 2.0

"Linux may be free, but Red Hat is making a killing from it. Last year the company added 51,000 customers seeking support for the open-source OS, and 99 of its 100 largest clients renewed."

tech change

While many enterprises still use Windows on the desktop, many backoffice operations such as storage devices, networking apps, etc run on top of open source operating system Linux. RHAT is the go-to company for installing, consulting, and building Linux-based applications. Its often directly competing against MSFT for who controls the operating systems of every machine in the enterprise. Growth is still strong, with revenues expected to go from $400mm this year to $513mm in 2008.

awesome future for this op/sys

Market leader in branded distribution of Linux open source operating system.

Unfortunately, linux isn't going to make it to the desktop, and if it does it will be Ubuntu, not Red Hat