“Lisa Sullivan – the third employee hired in the embryo
organization that would become Red Hat Inc. – remembers the day it
first crossed her mind that she might have hold of a comet’s
tail.”
“It was at a New York City trade show in late 1995. Sullivan and
Red Hat founder Bob Young were manning a booth at a Unix Expo,
selling CDs of a little-known computer operating system called
Linux.”
“All day, she recalled, the lines were 10-people deep.”
“For eight hours there were flocks of people, sometimes more
than 60 people in the booth,” Sullivan says. “And they were
excited. I thought, “Boy this is it. We could be on to something
with this.“