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The Red Hat Enterprise Linux Business Model

2023; IGI Global; Linguagem: Inglês

10.4018/978-1-6684-4785-7.ch010

ISSN

2327-3461

Autores

Cesar Henrique De Souza,

Tópico(s)

Advanced Data Storage Technologies

Resumo

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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