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Corporate Fact Sheet for Red Hat

Profile:

Red Hat, the world's leading open source and Linux provider, is headquartered in Raleigh, NC with satellite offices worldwide. Red Hat is leading Linux and open source solutions into the mainstream by making high-quality, low-cost technology accessible. Red Hat provides operating system platforms along with middleware, applications, and management solutions, as well as support, training, and consulting services to customers worldwide and through top-tier partnerships. Red Hat's open source strategy offers customers a long-term plan for building infrastructures that are based on and leverage open source technologies with a focus on security and ease of management.

Red Hat's mission:

To be the defining technology company of the 21st century.

Founded:

1993

Number of Employees:

Over 2,500 worldwide

Ownership:

Publicly held (NYSE:RHT) as of August, 1999

Website:

www.redhat.com

Headquarters:

1801 Varsity Drive
Raleigh, NC 27606
+1 919 754 3700

Over 58 offices in 28 countries. Office locations include:

North America
Toronto
Atlanta
Austin
Chicago
Dallas
Denver
Huntsville
Minneapolis
Marlton
Mountain View
New York
Raleigh
Tullahoma
Tysons Corner
Westford

Latin America
Buenos Aires
São Paulo
Mexico City

Europe, Middle East, Africa
Turnhout
Brno
Helsinki
Nanterre
Berlin
Frankfurt
Munich
Stuttgart
Cork
Milan
Amersfoot
Madrid
Stockholm
Neuchatâl
Cambridge
Farnborough
London
Newcastle

Asia Pacific
Brisbane
Melbourne
Sydney
Beijing
Guangzhou
Shanghai
Shenzhen
Hong Kong
Bangalore
Chennai
Kolkata
Mumbai
New Delhi
Pune
Tokyo
Seoul
Kuala Lumpur
Singapore
Sri Lanka

Management:

Jim Whitehurst
President and Chief Executive Officer

Charlie Peters
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

Alex Pinchev
Executive Vice President and President Global Sales, Services and Field Marketing

Paul Cormier
Executive Vice President and President, Products and Technologies

Michael Cunningham
Executive Vice President and General Counsel

DeLisa Alexander
Senior Vice President, People and Brand

Lee Congdon
Chief Information Officer

Brian Stevens
CTO and Vice President, Engineering

Nick Van Wyk
Vice President, Operations and Senior Transformation Executive

Products and Services:

Red Hat offers a comprehensive line of software subscriptions, services, and support making it the leading resource for open source solutions.

Key customers:

Red Hat customers include enterprise organizations, academic and research institutions, and local, state and federal governments. Our customers include:

  • New York Stock Exchange
  • McKesson
  • Amazon.com
  • AOL
  • Merrill Lynch
  • Credit Suisse
  • DreamWorks
  • VeriSign
  • Charles Schwab
  • Lehman Brothers
  • UBS Warburg
  • Morgan Stanley

Customer success stories

Key partners:

AMD, Dell, Fujitsu, Hitachi, HP, IBM, NEC, Oracle, Sybase, Symantec

Key Awards:

  • CIO Insight Magazine's Most Valued Vendor, 2007
  • CIO Insight Magazine's Most Valued Vendor, 2006
  • CIO Insight Magazine's Most Valued Vendor, 2005