Red Hat Corporate Infographic

Corporate Infographic

1993

Founded.
www.redhat.com/en/about/company-details

1994

Red Hat Linux released.
http://www.salon.com/1999/10/04/marc_ewing

1997

First venture capital firms invest in a free software business.
http://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1211546

1998

Term “open source” is coined.
http://opensource.org/history

1999

Record-breaking technology IPO.
http://news.cnet.com/2100-1001-229679.html

2001

Microsoft CEO calls Linux “It's biggest threat.”
http://www.crn.com/news/applications-os/18819434/ballmer-calls-linux-top-threat-to-windows.htm

2002

DreamWorks Animation makes the first film created entirely with Linux.
http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Linux-and-Open-Source/Linux-Plays-Starring-Role-in-Sinbad/

DreamWorks Animation makes the first film created entirely with Linux.
http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Linux-and-Open-Source/Linux-Plays-Starring-Role-in-Sinbad/
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/6103

RHEL released.
www.redhat.com/en/about/press-releases/press-midtier

2004

8 of the top 10 global investment banks are Red Hat customers.
http://news.cnet.com/Morgan-Stanley-aids-Linux-learning-curve/2100-1016_3-981696.html

2006

NYSE listing.

Middleware released.
http://news.cnet.com/Red-Hat-expands-stack-with-JBoss/2100-7344_3-6116186.html

2007

Red Hat Enterprise Linux is only operating system on Amazon EC2.
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/red-hat-puts-enterprise-linux-in-amazons-cloud/6922

2009

NYSE selects Red Hat platform and middleware solution for its financial trading platform.
www.redhat.com/en/resources/nyse-euronext-standardizes-red-hat-jboss-middleware

Virtualization released.
www.redhat.com/en/about/press-releases/red-hat-enterprise-virtualization

2010

PaaS released.
www.redhat.com/en/about/press-releases/cloud-infrastructure

2011

Red Hat ranked No 4 in Forbes’ most innovative company list.
www.forbes.com/lists/2011/most-innovative-growth-companies.html

Storage released.
www.redhat.com/en/about/press-releases/Red-Hat-Releases-First-Integrated-Scale-Out-Storage-Product-for-Unstructured-Data

2012

Red Hat makes first billion in a fiscal year, and becomes a platinum member of the OpenStack foundation.
www.redhat.com/en/about/press-releases/red-hat-reports-fourth-quarter-and-fiscal-year-2012-results

Cloud management released.
www.redhat.com/en/about/press-releases/red-hat-delivers-cloud-flexibility-and-agility-to-enterprises-with-innovative-infrastructure-as-a-service-platform

IaaS released.
www.redhat.com/en/about/press-releases/red-hat-announces-preview-version-of-enterprise-ready-openstack-distribution

2013

Red Hat receives best IaaS/PaaS solution award from IDG TechWorld.
www.redhat.com/en/about/blog/red-hat-cloud-infrastructure-named-top-iaas-product-in-2013-techworld-awards