A good way to understand RH is to think of the savings they provide to a CTO. With a RH stack you can have storage, core OS, Java and virtualization - so they p

A good way to understand RH is to think of the savings they provide to a CTO. With a RH stack you can have storage, core OS, Java and virtualization - so they provide all of the key pieces of architecture an enterprise needs. Fundamentally, the business model is that all their bits work with other enterprise vendors - if you're an enterprise CTO then you have SAP, and Oracle and Windows ... so interoperability is key. They're a really strong engineering outfit that's been consistent in pushing FOSS forward! But as importantly, they understand the challenges Fortune 500 customers have - and those aren't free!