Comments on: Redhat Report Q1 Revenue Up 33%

By: This Week On TechcrunchIT

This Week On TechcrunchIT — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 23:59:13 +0000

[...] was also a big week for Open Source as a business as we heard about rapid growth at RedHat and MySQL now at Sun talking about their $100M revenue rate, strong growth and future [...]

By: nik

nik — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 19:14:22 +0000

Rob: agree completely – in the same week we heard that MySQL were at $100M revenue, and RedHat is growing like crazy.

By: Rob Olson

Rob Olson — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 18:23:27 +0000

Awesome. There nothing bad about revenues for an open source company increasing by 1/3. Hopefully this will result in a few more developers for the Linux kernel and RHEL.

Using some of that money to improve Yum would be a good idea. An even better idea would be to replace the whole package manager entirely with something like apt-get.