[vox] Red Hot Red Hat

Brian Lavender brian at brie.com
Thu Mar 29 09:11:25 PDT 2012


Red Hat is now a billion dollar company.

Below are some past quotes of doom!
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/red-hat-rubs-billion-dollar-210757979.html

    "Linux is the hype du jour." Gartner, 1999.

    "We think of Linux as a competitor in the student and hobbyist market
    but I really don't think in the commercial market we'll see it in
    any significant way." Bill Gates, 2001.

brian
-- 
Brian Lavender
http://www.brie.com/brian/

"There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to
make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other
way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies."

Professor C. A. R. Hoare
The 1980 Turing award lecture


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