| Red Hat, Inc. (Red Hat) is engaged in providing open source software solutions to the enterprise, including its core enterprise operating system platform, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, its enterprise middleware platform, JBoss Enterprise Middleware Suite (Boss Enterprise Middleware), and other Red Hat enterprise technologies. The Company employs an open source software development and licensing model that uses the collaborative input of an international community of contributors to develop software. In addition, under the open source licensing model, the collectively developed software is distributed under licenses, such as the GNU General Public License and GNU Lesser General Public License, permitting access to the human-readable source code of the software. Red Hat is organized primarily on the basis of three geographic business units: the Americas; Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) and Asia Pacific. In September 2008, Red Hat acquired Qumranet, Inc. |
