BNET Industries
Last Fiscal Year Sales:$523.0M
- Public
- US
Dow Jones Description
We are a global leader in providing open source software solutions to the enterprise, including our core enterprise operating system platform, Red Hat Enterprise Linux and enterprise middleware platform, JBoss Enterprise Middleware and other Red Hat enterprise technologies. Open source software is an alternative to proprietary software and represents a different model for the development and licensing of commercial software code than that typically used for proprietary software. Because open source software code is freely shared, there are customarily no licensing fees for the distribution of the open source software. Therefore, we do not recognize revenue from the licensing of the code itself. We provide value to our customers through the aggregation, integration, testing, certification, delivery, maintenance and support of our Red Hat enterprise technologies, and by providing a level of scalability, stability and accountability for the enterprise technologies we package and distribute. Moreover, because communities of developers not employed by us assist with the creation of our open source offerings, opportunities for further innovation of our offerings are supplemented by these communities. We sell our enterprise technologies through subscriptions, and we recognize revenue over the period of the subscription agreements with our customers. ...
Number of Employees 2,800
Contact Information
1801 Varsity Dr
Raleigh, North Carolina 27606-2072
(919) 754-3700
Peer Companies
NAICS Code Software Publishers: 511210
Recent Events
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Novell To Report Q4 Results: Earnings Preview
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Open source as a model for business is elusive
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RIM, Motorola sued over visual voicemail patent
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Google Disappoints: No Chrome Just Yet
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Tip of the hat: Fedora 12 a strong update
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Int3s Partners with Red Hat to Power Toronto Hydro's Innovative Smart Meter Program Built on...
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Goldman Sachs Downgrades Red Hat RHT to Neutral
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Adobe upped, Red Hat cut by Goldman Sachs
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BRIEF-RESEARCH ALERT-Goldman upgrades Adobe to buy
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Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization RHEV
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Red Hat Rolls Out Virtualization Platform for Heterogeneous
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Greylock raises $575m for investing
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Open Source, OpenWorld
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EnterpriseDB Announces Strategic Investment by Red Hat
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VMware facing challengers on all sides
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A scary Q1 for Microsoft could lie behind the Windows 7 hoopla
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Open-source software firms and the cloud (May 28th)
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Gear6 Does Memcached Right
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A comparison of IBM® WebSphere® Application Server and JBoss by RedHat
BNET
- 2009-10-07
Succeeding in today's economy not only means utilizing technology to create intelligent, instrumented and interconnected solutions, but leveraging technology to optimize costs and do more with less. This brochure describes how the 3 key attributes of IBM's application foundation help deliver higher quality of service at a lower cost than...
Red Hat F2Q10 (Qtr End 8/31/09) Earnings Call Transcript
Seeking Alpha
- 2009-09-23
Question-and-Answer Session Operator Operator Instructions Our first question comes from the line of Sarah Friar with Goldman Sachs. Sarah Friar – Goldman Sachs Good quarter. Jim, if I could just ask you a little bit on the demand environment, some extra color -- did you actually see...
Red Hat Open Source Security
BNET
- 2009-09-01
No software is perfect—even the most rigorously tested and secured operating system or application will contain flaws and vulnerabilities. Open source technology gives administrators control over their infrastructure in a way that helps improve and prevent problems before they cause damaging downtime. The open source development model allows innovation to...
Red Hat Enterprise Linux leads the way with web applications
BNET
- 2009-09-01
Independent tests performed under industry benchmark standards find that Red Hat Enterprise Linux is the leading platform for running web servers--as well as Java applications and other large-scale online transaction processing tools in popular use by Internet vendors. Red Hat also confers additional benefits in the form of cost...
Achieving PCI Compliance with Red Hat Enterprise Linux
BNET
- 2009-09-01
The payment card industry data security standard PCI DSS provides best practice security standards that protect systems that handle credit and debit card data. Red Hat solutions are PCI-compliant, with plans to expand and enhance systems and tools that enable adherence to PCI standards and the use of innovative...
Red Hat Enterprise Linux beats Microsoft Windows Server 2008 in value, cost
BNET
- 2009-09-01
Evaluate the savings, performance, and overall value of a Red Hat Enterprise Linux deployment versus a Microsoft Windows Server 2008 deployment. In this whitepaper, the two systems are compared over a six-year period, with various e-commerce configurations covering small, medium, and large business scenarios. This comparison takes into consideration...
Get top-ranked Novell support for Red Hat at 50% less
BNET
- 2009-06-08
A simplified IT environment isn't just less complex, it's more reliable. When you standardize on a single Linux platform with SUSE Linux Enterprise from Novell, you're getting the world's most interoperable Linux, and the only one fully supported by both Novell and Microsoft. Learn more today!
Get top-ranked Novell support for Red Hat when you switch
BNET
- 2009-06-08
If Linux is going to power your mission-critical applications, you'd better have the best support known to business. Novell provides unparalleled support, tools, and reports to help you understand your Linux environment. Learn more today!
Move to SUSE Linux Enterprise get 3 years of Red Hat support
BNET
- 2009-06-08
One unified management tool for both Linux and Windows allows your mixed environments to become completely interoperable and more efficient. Interoperability means simplified management. Learn more today!
More interoperability, plus 3 years Red Hat support, only from Novell
BNET
- 2009-06-08
With one, unified management tool for both Linux and Windows, your mixed environments become completely interoperable, dramatically more efficient, and you can recognize dramatic cost savings. Learn how you can start saving today!
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