Facts about Red Hat

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   Red Hat's certified training programs have trained over 1 million IT professionals since the company began offering formal certification courses in the late 1990s.

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   The subscription revenue model pioneered by Red Hat's Enterprise Linux offering transformed Linux from free software into a profitable enterprise product category worth billions annually.

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   OpenShift, Red Hat's containerization platform, processes millions of container deployments daily across enterprises running Kubernetes-based infrastructure worldwide.

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   Ansible, Red Hat's open-source automation platform acquired in 2015 for 100 million dollars, became the company's leading infrastructure automation tool used across thousands of enterprises.

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   Founded in 1993 by Marc Ewing and Bob Young, Red Hat pioneered the commercial Linux distribution model that became the industry standard for enterprise operating systems.

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   Fedora, the community-driven Linux distribution sponsored by Red Hat, serves as the testing ground for technologies that eventually appear in Red Hat Enterprise Linux releases.

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   Red Hat Enterprise Linux powers over 90 percent of Fortune 500 companies according to the organization's market analysis and customer base data.

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   In 2018, IBM acquired Red Hat for 34 billion dollars, marking one of the largest software company acquisitions in history.

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