ZDTV: A Talk with Red Hat CEO Bob Young | Linux Today

ZDTV: A Talk with Red Hat CEO Bob Young

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Apr 16, 1999

Thanks to Prasanth Kumar
for this link.

“Linux, the free operating system whose most prediminant
distributor is Red Hat Software, continues to snowball in
popularity. InfoWorld magazine named Red Hat Linux 5.2 1998 product
of the year, and some think that the open-source OS will overtake
Microsoft Windows as the operating system of choice in the coming
millennium.”

“We spoke with Red Hat CEO Bob Young about his company’s
flagship product.”

Leo LaPorte of ZDTV’s Screen Savers talked to Red Hat CEO Bob
Young recently about their Linux distribution. You can see a Real
Audio clip
here
.

Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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