Red Hat’s Rise to Fame

Red Hat is the darling of the North American enterprise market. You can hardly walk into any high availability datacenter without seeing it. It’s a badge of honor honestly, earned over nearly three decades of excellence in open-source software. It’s not a title I bestow lightly, and certainly not one I would ascribe to the Red Hat of today. Red Hat rose from the ashes of the dot-com bubble as a paragon of open-source. It not only proved that open-source could be commercial, but that it could be profitable too. Over the past decade in particular, it has grown from the distro of the server closet to the distro of choice for anyone who could afford to use it.