Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE:RHT)
About Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE:RHT) Red Hat, Inc. (Red Hat) is engaged in providing open source software solutions to the enterprise, including its core enterprise operating system platform, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, its enterprise middleware platform, JBoss Enterprise Middleware, its virtualization solutions and other Red Hat enterprise technologies. The Company employs an open source software development and licensing model that uses the collaborative input of an international community of contributors to develop and enhance software. The collectively developed software is distributed under open source licenses, such as the GNU General Public License and GNU Lesser General Public License, permitting access to the human-readable software source code. These licenses also provide rights for licensees to use, copy, modify and distribute open source software. In December 2010, the Company acquired Makara, a developer of deployment and management solutions for applications in the cloud.