Linux vs Windows - Conquering a Windows Based World

Governments of South Korea, Japan, Australia, and China are becoming the “positive spokespeople” for the adoption of Linux according to Matthew Szulik, CEO of redhat. In fact these regions are key for Redhat earning 60 percent of it 2009 revenue outside of the US.

At the end of August, Red Hat’s revenue for the first six months of its fiscal year was US$246 million [m], up 34 percent from the previous year. About 85 percent of its revenue came from software subscriptions with the balance coming from services like consulting and training.

Redhat also plan to offer new technologies in the coming months to help customers build a virtualized computing infrastructure.  Redhat is also seeing increased income from the middleware offering JBOSS. I hope soon that Rehdat will be offering complete solution stacks with better intergration, installation, and updated features.

HP and Redhat have joined forces and will be shippng the dx2250 HP work station with Firefox, Open Office, and Evolution email client in Australia. First was Dell and now HP, things are starting to look promising for Linux on the desktop now that the major hardware suppliers are testing the waters.  Covered by ZDENT.UK