Oct 25
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.
May 11
Looking to decrease its reliance on a single vendor, the Japanese government is looking at open source alternatives. Big name vendors including Oracle, NEC, IBM, Hitachi, and Dell are forming a consortium to help them do just that. Linux is to be a priority for all procurements starting in July.
“The central government of Japan says it plans to spend around $1.25 trillion yen, or $10.4 billion, on IT over the next year. The government has said explicitly it wants to decrease its reliance on Microsoft as a server operating system platform.”
Anyone think Microsoft is going to become an open source supporter in the near future?
