Red Hat
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Red Hat headquarters
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| Industry | Computer software |
| Founded | 1993 |
| Founder |
Bob Young Marc Ewing |
| Headquarters | Raleigh, North Carolina, U.S. |
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Area served
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Worldwide |
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Key people
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Hugh Shelton (Chairman) Jim Whitehurst (CEO) |
| Products |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux |
| Revenue |  US$2.052 billion (2016) |
| US$288.05 million (2016) |
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| US$199.37 million (2016) |
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| Total assets | US$4.155 billion (2016) |
| Total equity | US$1.334 billion (2016) |
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Number of employees
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9,860 (Aug 2016) |
| Subsidiaries | Red Hat India |
| Website | www |
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Red Hat, Inc. is an American multinational software company providing open-source software products to the enterprise community. Founded in 1993, Red Hat has its corporate headquarters in Raleigh, North Carolina, with satellite offices worldwide.
Red Hat has become associated to a large extent with its enterprise operating system Red Hat Enterprise Linux and with the acquisition of open-source enterprise middleware vendor JBoss. Red Hat also offers Red Hat Virtualization (RHV), an enterprise virtualization product. Red Hat provides storage, operating system platforms, middleware, applications, management products, and support, training, and consulting services.
Red Hat creates, maintains, and contributes to many free software projects. It has acquired several proprietary software product codebases through corporate mergers and acquisitions and has released such software under open source licenses. As of March 2016[update], Red Hat is the second largest corporate contributor to the Linux kernel version 4.5 after Intel.
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