[ Thanks to The
VAR Guy for this link. ]
“First, a little background. Yes, Red Hat is solidly
profitable thanks to growing sales of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and
JBoss middleware. Rival Novell often generates profitable quarters
but the profits are based on Novell’s complete software
portfolio; the company’s SUSE Linux business is not yet
consistently profitable, The VAR Guy hears.“Are there any other publicly held, profitable companies built
around the open source model?”