The company boasted that its government and system integrator business has grown in the “high double-digit rates” over the last three years. Red Hat, which offers various flavours of the open-source operating system Linux, said subscriptions for its software make up the majority of its revenue from Whitehall.
“The Cabinet Office is helping our business,” Phil Andrews, the Hat’s vice-president for northern and eastern Europe, said on Wednesday.
Andrews, who spoke during a roundtable chat in London, would not reveal any sales figures. But he reckoned Linux is infiltrating Blighty’s bureaucracy because it is “value for money” against closed-source rivals.