Start-up and Industry Veteran with more than 20 Years of
Experience Joins the Market Leader of Linux Solutions
Durham, NC–April 22, 1999–Red Hat® Software, Inc., the
leading developer and support provider of the Linux operating
system, today named Tim Buckley senior vice president and Chief
Operating Officer (COO). Buckley, formerly Senior Vice President of
Worldwide Sales at Seattle-based Visio Corp. (Nasdaq: VSIO), brings
more than 20 years of emerging technology company experience to the
rapidly-growing Red Hat..
Buckley was instrumental in building some of the most successful
start-ups in the computing industry, including Aldus, the company
that created PageMaker, and Approach, a PC database company that
was later sold to Lotus Development Corp. Buckley joined Visio in
1993 and was instrumental in increasing company revenues from
start-up to a consensus estimated $215 million in fiscal 1999.
“Tim brings tremendous experience with emerging companies that
will help Red Hat to effectively handle the growth and demand for
Red Hat Linux offerings,” said Bob Young, CEO of Red Hat Software,
Inc. “His insight will help Red Hat continue accelerating the
adoption of Linux and the expansion of our business, service and
support operations.”
“Red Hat is an opportunity to help remake the software industry
and to provide computer users with the benefits of open source
software,” said Buckley. “Red Hat has become the market leader by
providing real value to their customers through an exciting new
approach to software development and support. I am excited by the
opportunity to fundamentally change the landscape of the computing
industry.”
Recent Linux Momentum
Red Hat’s extensive alliances with industry leaders during the
past year and the overwhelming demand for Linux-based applications
by more than 10 million Linux users has created support from the
industry’s leading software and hardware manufacturers, including
Compaq®, Computer Associates, Corel, Dell, Hewlett-Packard,
IBM, Intel, Netscape, Novell, Oracle® and SAP®. Linux runs
on Intel, Alpha and Sun SPARC platforms and will soon run on
PowerPC systems.
About Red Hat Software
Founded in 1994, Red Hat Software is based in Research Triangle
Park, N.C., where it is a leader in the development of open source
operating software solutions. Red Hat Development builds the most
accessible and advanced operating system available anywhere with
technical innovations such as RPM and the disk druid installation
tool. Red Hat Linux is available for Intel, Compaq Alpha, and Sun
SPARC platforms.
Red Hat Linux was named InfoWorld’s Product of the Year for
three years in a row, was given a Productivity accolade in Software
Development’s Jolt Awards, was named an Environment/Desktop
finalist in the Ziff-Davis European Excellence Awards, won the
editor’s choice awards from the Linux Journal and Australian
Personal Computing magazines, and won the “Just Plain Cool” award
from Australian Personal Computing magazine. At March’s LinuxWorld
Expo, more than 8,000 members of the Linux community voted Red Hat
a “LinuxWorld Favorite.”
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