” ‘An extraordinary ability to change what is’ serves as the
common thread for the selection of Red Herring’s ‘Top Ten
Entrepreneurs 1999’…”
“To identify the boldest innovators of the information economy,
the technology-business magazine considered the entrepreneurs’
track records of starting new companies and measured the success of
these endeavors for the cover story. The ventures had to offer
potentially transformational technologies and each individual had
to be relatively undiscovered.”
“Bob Young and Marc Ewing, Red Hat Software
With a successful Aug. 11 IPO, Young and Ewing are going
mainstream with Linux, the open-source software operating system.
Under their stewardship the company’s principal product, the Red
Hat Linux development model, has become so attractive to corporate
America that it poses a formidable threat to Microsoft’s OS
monopoly. Although Red Hat Linux can be downloaded at no cost, the
company sells it on CD and provides lucrative support services,
maintains a Linux site and is developing a graphical desktop
environment. Their success has made Linux a real alternative to
Windows NT.”
Complete Story (scroll down to to end for Red Hat
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