Red Hat contributes code upstream, doesn't "simply take upstream packages and rebuild them," and maintains and supports operating systems for 10 years, McGrath wrote.

In 2014, Red Hat incorporated CentOS. CentOS continued to be free to use, while Red Hat hoped it could persuade CentOS users to become RHEL customers. It didn't work out.

* Chapters celebrate the Red Hat Society's birthday with special events and an "official" holiday: Red Hat Society Day, held each April 25. * The "reduation" ceremony recognizes each 50th birthday ...

Red Hat layoffs over 700 employees at the open-source software company, part of IBM, with CEO Matt Hicks explaining his decision to focus on fewer technology markets leading to staff cuts.

Red Hat might no longer be an independent company, but the IBM subsidiary’s ambitious strategy to ascend to the top of the hybrid cloud market centers on an infrastructure stack that is open ...

Red Hat acquired CentOS in 2014 Although CentOS was and is a wildly popular distribution—for a couple of years, it was the most commonly used Web server distro in the world—it suffered its ...