Last year Red Hat, which has been mostly known for selling Linux in the enterprise becamethe first $2 billion open source company. Now it wants to be the first to $5 billion, but it might not be just Linux that gets it there.
A couple of years ago Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst recognized, even in the face of rising revenue, that the company couldn’t continue growing forever featuring Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) alone. As successful as RHEL had been, the world was changing and his company like so many enterprise-focused companies had to change too or risk being left behind.
To quote that old Microsoft commercial that meant, “To the cloud!”
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