[ Thanks to James
Maguire for this link. ]
“The last three months have been good ones for Red Hat.
The enterprise Linux vendor reported its first-quarter fiscal 2011
financial results this week, showing growth coming from all sides
with Linux platform, JBoss middleware and professional services
revenues up, and customers new and old expanding their spending
with Red Hat.“Red Hat’s earnings report comes as the company is gearing up
for a major release of its flagship Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
platform as well as new cloud and virtualization efforts.“For the quarter ending May 31, Red Hat reported revenue of
$209.1 million, a 20 percent year-over-year increase from the same
quarter a year earlier. Net income came in at $24.1 million, or
$0.12 per share — an increase over the $18.5 million reported last
year at this time. Minus one-time charges, earnings totaled $0.18
per share — up three cents from a year ago, and in line with Wall
Street estimates, according to Thomson Reuters. Looking forward to
the second quarter of fiscal 2011, Red Hat provided guidance of
revenues estimated at between $210 million to $212 million.”