> It's only around 2003 but its management hit upon the idea of having a premium enterprise distribution, and making the only way to obtain it being to buy comm

> It's only around 2003 but its management hit upon the idea of having a premium enterprise distribution, and making the only way to obtain it being to buy commercial support for it. That was a stroke of genius, and over the last 20 years, it's made the company very rich indeed — in stark contrast to its first decade. Their enterprise support started around RH6, which was in 1999 and grew from there. It eventually morphed into RHEL because of the enterprise success, but didn't start with it.