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Red Hat was 26 years old in 2019, and then they were acquired by IBM. But that’s only if you count the starting year as 1993; Red Hat the actual company seems
by teddyh 4y ago
Red Hat was 26 years old in 2019, and then they were acquired by IBM.
But that’s only if you count the starting year as 1993; Red Hat the actual company seems to have been started in 1995, from what I read. In that case, they would have been 28 years old today.
- samueloph 4y ago> But that’s only if you count the starting year as 1993; Red Hat the actual company seems to have been started in 1995, from what I read. In that case, they would have been 28 years old today. The distro was not created before 1994 either, so looks like they're counting the moment the founders got together as the creation date (before the distro, before the company) ?!
- nemetroid 4y agoAccording to the article, > Red Hat was incorporated on March 26, 1993, by its founders Bob Young and Marc Ewing
- tokai 4y agoRed Hats themselves says 95 other places.[0] Young and Ewing was working together from 93', but Red Hat Software, Inc. is from 95. [0] https://www.redhat.com/en/about/brand/standards/history https://www.redhat.com/en/about/brand/standards/history
- teddyh 4y agoI guess that depends on your definitions. ACC Corporation was created in 1993, but it was a simple CD-selling company and had nothing to do with Red Hat except distributing their CDs, like many other CDs they sold.
- brozaman 4y ago> Red Hat was 26 years old in 2019, and then they were acquired by IBM. As a former Red Hat employee this was painful to read. IBM is doing a Sun Microsystems to it, Red Hat used to be such a great company.
- stbenjam 4y agoStill is. I’ve been at RH a long time. IBM hasn’t touched us and they are not doing what Oracle did to Sun. Not yet anyway, but Jim made a bunch of promises to us when we were acquired and they’ve kept them all.
- quickthrower2 4y agoWhy would IBM acquire and not touch it? They must have had a reason to acquire?
- bonzini 4y agoRed Hat is now worth 10% of IBM's revenue, and growing. They had 3.4 billion reasons to acquire when they acquired it in 2018, and they had roughly 6 billion reasons not to touch it last year.
- op00to 4y agoIBM "touches" Red Hat on a constant basis, needling and throwing its weight around to make way for blue ribbon 7 figure deals that never materialize.
- CameronNemo 4y agoBig list of companies to upsell to.
- op00to 4y agoThis has not been my experience AT ALL. Also, no one has mentioned Jim in years. Where is he anyway? Chewed up an spat out by the IBM machine.
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- pjmlp 4y agoOracle rescued what they cared from Sun, everyone else including IBM, couldn't care less.