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Red Hat, Inc. is an American multinational software company providing open-source software products to the enterprise community. Founded in 1993, Red Hat has its corporate headquarters in Raleigh, North Carolina, with satellite offices worldwide.
Red Hat has become associated to a large extent with its enterprise operating system Red Hat Enterprise Linux and with the acquisition of open-source enterprise middleware vendor JBoss. Red Hat also offers Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV), an enterprise virtualization product. Red Hat provides storage, operating system platforms, middleware, applications, management products, and support, training, and consulting services.
Red Hat creates, maintains, and contributes to many free software projects. It has acquired several proprietary software product codebases through corporate mergers and acquisitions and has released such software under open source licenses. , Red Hat is the second largest corporate contributor to the Linux kernel after Intel.
Red Hat is a software corporation.
Red hat or Red Hat may also refer to:
- Red Hat (U.S. military operation), a relocation of U.S. chemical weapons in the Pacific during the Cold War; Operation Red Hat; "Red Hats", the participants of; Red Hat Area, Johnston Atoll;
- Red Hat sect, a sect of Tibetan Buddhism
- Galero, a red hat traditionally worn by cardinals of the Catholic Church
- Trainee in a volunteer fire department
- Red Hat Cell Block, a prison cell block at the Louisiana State Penitentiary
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Red Hat Linux, a computer operating system
- Fedora (operating system), a Linux distribution sometimes referred to as "Red Hat".
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux, a computer operating system
- Red Hat Society, a social organization traditionally for women over 50
- a metaphorical hat representing emotional thinking, in Edward de Bono's book Six Thinking Hats