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
News & Analysis
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Will all the good open source companies be acquired?
BNET
- 2009-08-12
Another one bites the dust. Add SpringSource to the expanding list of independent open source companies that have been gobbled up by proprietary software giants. Let's consider the growing list: IBM's purchase of Gluecode, Novell's purchase of SUSE, Citrix's XenSource deal, Nokia's Trolltech buy, Sun's purchase of MySQL, Oracle's purchase...
VMWare, SpringSource to revolutionize Java development
BNET
- 2009-08-12
VMWare's acquisition of SpringSource this week is a significant development in the history of the Java development platform.I have been working closely with VMWare for some time now, and I know a little bit about how the company sees its role in the cloud. The acquisition of the commercial open-source...
VMware's next move may be middleware buy
BNET
- 2009-08-11
IDG News Service - VMware will gain a substantial footprint in enterprise Java application development with its pending acquisition of SpringSource, which was announced Monday. But the virtualization giant may follow up that move -- made in support of a new PaaS platform as a service cloud-computing strategy -- by...
VMware Buys SpringSource to Boost Java
BNET
- 2009-08-11
BOSTON/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Business software maker VMware Inc has agreed to buy privately held SpringSource for $420 million, its biggest-ever acquisition, to beef up a portfolio of programs that help companies run data centers. VMware said on Monday the deal would hurt non-GAAP profitability through at least 2010, but...
Microsoft and Red Hat unite against VMware
Strategy Eye
- 2009-02-23
Microsoft and Red Hat are providing technical support for each other’s operating systems in an attempt to see off virtualisation competitor VMware. The deal sees the two companies effectively guaranteeing that each other’s operating systems will run in their own virtualisation software. ...
Red Hat / Qumranet Deal Adds Fuel to the Virtualization Fire
Seeking Alpha
- 2008-09-05
Dana Gardner submits: Open-source giant Red Hat RHT has upped the ante in the PC desktop virtualization market with its acquisition of Qumranet, Inc. in a $107-million deal announced this week.This acquisition clearly ups the ante in the race for Desktop Virtualization Infrastructure VDI solutions. I used to call VDI...
Red Hat and VMware Expand Relationship to Accelerate Open and Interoperable Virtualization
- 2006-11-08
Customers and ISVs Benefit From Certified Solution Available Today and a Commitment to Broadened Interoperability in the Future
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