Red Hat (vendor analysis)

June 29, 2009 - PRLog -- Red Hat is going from strength to strength, from a revenue perspective as well as in terms of market influence. The company faces three challenges.

Table of Contents :  

Overview
The Ovum view
SWOT analysis
Strengths
Weaknesses
Opportunities
Threats
Products and services
Products
Subscriptions
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
JBoss Enterprise Middleware (JEM)
System management
Virtualisation offering
Identity management
Services
Service revenues bounce back
It will continue to grow and become international
Consulting up, training down
Support gets longer and simpler
Products + services = solutions
Third-party products + support = stacks (no longer pursued)
Multi-vendor support + sales = unsuccessful Red Hat Exchange (RHX)
Strategy
Strategy objectives
Strategy execution
Becoming a $1 billion company
Establishing itself as a key open source software vendor
Becoming a global virtualisation player
Continuing as the largest Linux provider
Growing middleware revenues
Expanding into the system and identity management market
Future outlook
Slower growth
System and identity management
Acquisition
Financial analysis
Key financials
Rapid but slowing revenue growth
Predictable revenues
Services starting to catch up
Profitability decrease
Cash-rich and debt-free

List of Tables
Table 1: Red Hat key financial indicators
 

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