Open source manufacturers ' revenue breakthrough "1 billion dollars" magic weapon

For enterprise software companies, the annual 1 billion-dollar operating income is an insurmountable peak. Recently, Red Hat Company announced the third quarter of 2011 earnings, and said Red hat to complete the 2012 fiscal year sales target-1 billion dollars, is the winner. This means that Red hat will be the first to achieve open source revenue more than 1 billion dollars of vendors.

At the same time, there must be many people want to know what is the success of it? This article will discuss this topic. To this end, the author interviewed Red Hat Greater China President Pan, on the relevant issues to discuss. Pan the past year to do a review and summary, share the success of the Red Hat Magic weapon, and talked about their future enterprise IT development of the three major trends, and red hat coping strategies.

Review 2011: The perfect Cloud computing platform has something to do

In reviewing the 2011 most significant events for Red Hat, Pan said the most important 2011 was the improvement of the solution, including the introduction of Cloudforms and Cloudshift, and acquisitions of open-source storage software providers--gluster, Let Red Hat provide a complete cloud platform to become a complete cloud computing platform provider.

First, the introduction of Cloudforms and OpenShift made Red Hat an IaaS and PAAs supplier to the "cloud platform provider" transition. The OpenShift, based on Deltacloud cloud interoperability standards, allows developers to run their applications in any supported Red Hat Certified public cloud provider, eliminating vendor lock-in associated with the first generation of PAAs vendors; Pan says OpenShift is currently in use, and the product will be launched in the next year's official edition. At the same time, it has won a new batch of users for Red hat-cloud developers.

Second, Red Hat bought open source storage software provider--gluster in October at a price of $136 million, marking the official launch of Red Hat into storage software, Glusterfs is an extensible open source clustered file system, and can easily provide customers with global namespaces, Distributed front-end and scalability of up to hundreds of PB levels, developers of Glusterfs Open source file systems and Gluster storage platform software stacks have received widespread attention. However, Pan says it is uncertain how the product will be integrated with the existing Red Hat products and how the future sales model should be.

Finally, the high rate of growth in middleware is also a good thing for Red hat. In 2011, Pan said, while Linux revenue still accounted for most of the revenue from Red Hat, middleware and cloud computing had become the fastest growing business area for Red Hat. The JBoss Enterprise data grid design goal is to provide highly resilient and transactional data access and to provide the agility and economic advantages of cloud computing, based on the core concepts of cutting-edge nosql technologies such as Amazon Dynamo, and a collection of universally accepted enterprise architectures and design patterns.

Once analysts believe that Red Hat needs to enter the database field, the reason is that it will greatly enrich its End-to-end product improvement, and to Oralce and IBM familiar with the area of a piece of soup. When it comes to this, Pan told reporters that the purpose of the Red Hat is to provide users with the choice of open source, the field of open source and do a good job, Red hat will not be involved. At the same time, Red Hat as a platform provider of cloud computing era, will not be involved in application areas. The future will be with the important application software, Rudong Soft, ufida and other cooperation, their products in the open source platform reflected.

(Responsible editor: The good of the Legacy)