Comments on: Redhat Report Q1 Revenue Up 33% http://techcrunch.com/2008/06/27/redhat-report-q1-revenue-up-33/ Startup and Technology News Fri, 16 Mar 2012 08:03:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: This Week On TechcrunchIT http://techcrunch.com/2008/06/27/redhat-report-q1-revenue-up-33/#comment-13589 Sat, 28 Jun 2008 23:59:13 +0000 http://www.techcrunchit.com/?p=85#comment-13589 [...] was also a big week for Open Source as a business as we heard about rapid growth at RedHat and MySQL now at Sun talking about their $100M revenue rate, strong growth and future [...]

]]> By: Nik Cubrilovic http://techcrunch.com/2008/06/27/redhat-report-q1-revenue-up-33/#comment-13588 Sat, 28 Jun 2008 19:14:22 +0000 http://www.techcrunchit.com/?p=85#comment-13588 Rob: agree completely – in the same week we heard that MySQL were at $100M revenue, and RedHat is growing like crazy.

]]> By: Rob Olson http://techcrunch.com/2008/06/27/redhat-report-q1-revenue-up-33/#comment-13587 Sat, 28 Jun 2008 18:23:27 +0000 http://www.techcrunchit.com/?p=85#comment-13587 Awesome. There nothing bad about revenues for an open source company increasing by 1/3. Hopefully this will result in a few more developers for the Linux kernel and RHEL.

Using some of that money to improve Yum would be a good idea. An even better idea would be to replace the whole package manager entirely with something like apt-get.

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