Red Hat exceeds $1 billion in revenue

[thewayne]

Good for them! I'm glad to see that they have endured and prospered. I don't use their product, but I still respect it.

http://linux.slashdot.org/story/12/03/29/1233225/in-your-face-critics-red-hat-passes-1-billion-in-revenue


In other Linux news, the city of Munich has saved an estimated 4 million Euros with switching to Linux.

"Mayor Ude reported today that the city of Munich has saved €4 million so far (Google translation of German original) by switching its IT infrastructure from Windows NT and Office to Linux and OpenOffice. At the same time, the number of trouble tickets decreased from 70 to 46 per month. Savings were €2.8M from software licensing and €1.2M from hardware because demands are lower for Linux compared to Windows 7."</i http://linux.slashdot.org/story/12/03/29/0025239/munich-has-saved-4m-so-far-after-switch-to-linux

Comments

[silveradept]

I'm impressed that someone has found the way to make Linux support into that profitable a business. Clearly, whatever is going on there is worth looking into.