Red Hat Chief Executive Jim Whitehurst has gotten good at selling his company to investors and the public. The open-source software maker, he says, is "sort of like a Facebook or Wikipedia for code.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 is due in early October, according to the company. Typically, companies have to acquire software from multiple companies in order to assemble Linux-based server systems.

Last year, Red Hat rolled out its Software Collections, allowing users of Red Hat Enterprise Linux to run late-revision versions of popular software packages without sacrificing support or ...

Red Hat Inc. is betting that software development organizations will be willing to pay for the lessons it has learned over 30 years of working with open-source software at a time when software ...

Red Hat created its own product, called Sigtore, that can be used to authenticate the source when building software.

Now, Red Hat, which has built a nearly $10 billion company around Linux, is trying to expand by creating a new business in software that runs cloud-computing systems.

Red Hat: A Software Investment For The Next 30 Years Jan. 22, 2012 3:32 AM ET Red Hat, Inc. (RHT) Stock RHT 14 Comments Barry Randall 121 Follower s ...

Unless you’re making changes to open source software, license compliance is not a user issue. As its CEO Jim Whitehurst hints, Red Hat’s success has come from delivering those valuable freedoms.

The software, called Red Hat Global File System (GFS), costs $2,200 annually per server in addition to the price customers already pay for Red Hat Enterprise Linux, the company said Thursday.

Red Hat is arguably the most enthusiastic commercial advocate of open-source software. But one component of the company's technology, the software that powers its online update service, isn't.

Red Hat will continue to support customers using the Xen virtualization software through the life cycle of the RHEL 5 operating system — until at least 2014, the company said.