Red Hat

Summary

Red Hat is a business^[1]. It ranks in the top 1% of business entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,079 views/month).^[2]

Key Facts

• Red Hat was a member of Linux Foundation^[3].
• Red Hat was a member of European Committee for Interoperable Systems^[4].
• Red Hat was a member of CVE Numbering Authority^[5].
• Red Hat was a member of Bytecode Alliance^[6].
• Red Hat was a member of Node.js Foundation^[7].
• Red Hat was a member of OpenJS Foundation^[8].
• Red Hat is in the country of United States^[9].
• Red Hat's image is recorded as Red Hat Tower (formerly headquarters of Progress Energy Inc.) -- 20 May 2012 (panoramio.com) (cropped).jpg^[10].
• Red Hat's instance of is recorded as business^[11].
• Red Hat's instance of is recorded as enterprise^[12].
• Red Hat's instance of is recorded as public company^[13].
• Red Hat's founder is recorded as Bob Young^[14].
• Red Hat's founder is recorded as Marc Ewing^[15].
• Red Hat's logo image is recorded as Modified Red Hat 2019 logo without Fedora hat.svg^[16].
• Red Hat's logo image is recorded as Red Hat logo.svg^[17].
• Red Hat's follows is recorded as Cygnus Solutions^[18].
• Red Hat's follows is recorded as ArsDigita^[19].
• Red Hat's follows is recorded as JBoss^[20].
• Red Hat's follows is recorded as C2Net^[21].
• Red Hat's follows is recorded as Sistina Software^[22].
• Red Hat's follows is recorded as Container Linux^[23].
• Red Hat's headquarters location is recorded as Raleigh^[24].
• Red Hat's chief executive officer is recorded as Matt Hicks^[25].
• Red Hat's ISNI is recorded as 0000000122914952^[26].
• Red Hat's VIAF cluster ID is recorded as 139740927^[27].

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Founding

Founders include Bob Young^[14] and Marc Ewing^[15]. +1993-03-27T00:00:00Z marks the founding of Red Hat^[28].

Identity

Red Hat's part of is recorded as S&P 500^[29]. Predecessors include Cygnus Solutions^[18], ArsDigita^[19], JBoss^[20], C2Net^[21], Sistina Software^[22], and Container Linux^[23].

Leadership

Red Hat's chief executive officer is recorded as Matt Hicks^[25].

Operations

Red Hat's headquarters location is recorded as Raleigh^[24]. Its parent organization or unit is recorded as IBM^[30]. Subsidiaries include it (United Kingdom)^[31]; it (Israel)^[32]; Red Hat Germany^[33]; Red Hat Czech^[34], a business^[35], in Czech Republic^[36], founded in 2006^[37], headquartered in Brno^[38]; and StackRox^[39].

Industry

Red Hat's industry is recorded as software industry^[40].

Ownership

Products include software^[41], Fedora Linux^[42], Q215273^[43], 389 Directory Server^[44], and WildFly^[45].

Why It Matters

Red Hat ranks in the top 1% of business entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,079 views/month).^[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[46] It is known by 38 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[47]

Works attributed to it include OpenShift^[48], a free software^[49], founded in 2011^[50], written by it^[51].