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The Red Hat Enterprise Linux Business Model

The Red Hat Enterprise Linux Business Model
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Author(s): Cesar Henrique De Souza (Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil)
Copyright: 2023
Pages: 22
Source title: Business Models and Strategies for Open Source Projects
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Francisco José Monaco (Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-6684-4785-7.ch010

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Abstract

Red Hat, Inc. is a leading software company known worldwide for pioneering the FOSS industry. Its history offers a concrete example of a successful open-source business model. Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), taken as a study case, is one of the most successful commercial Linux distributions, thanks to its components' stability and company support. This chapter brings a brief historical perspective of the several Red Hat distributions and their communities, highlighting how decisions have impacted the enterprise product. The chapter also introduces the open-source model behind Red Hat's Linux development flow. For this purpose, the Linux kernel provides an excellent example of collaboration that goes through all distributions, maturing to their final destination. The discussion presents some aspects of quality, security, and testing that make RHEL one of the most reliable and secure distributions.

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