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Fully-fledged Company rather than just a Linux Company:

Unlike we all think, Red Hat is not just an enterprise Linux distribution or we can say just an operating system. It also provides a wide range of additional products and services such as database middleware, application server middleware, web middleware, and so on. In addition to middleware, Red Hat also offers various cloud computing services among which Open Shift technology is a popular one, which delivers a complete application platform for both traditional and cloud-native applications, allowing them to run anywhere. Along with cloud services, Red Hat also provides storage solutions as well as consultancy and support solutions, even though its enterprise Linux distribution is the product for which it is best known. Rather than just being a Linux distribution, Red Hat Enterprise is a significant product-based company mostly providing cloud, storage, and middleware solutions.

Operates on Open-Source Business Model:

We’ve long stated that the next ten years in cloud computing will not be the same as the previous ten. With the momentum of the entire multitrillion-dollar IT industry behind it, the cloud has firmly planted its footprint on the other side of the gap.

Cloud technologies are being used by both sellers and buyers, and many are establishing their own value layers on top of the cloud. We expect innovation will continue to cluster around the main three U.S. clouds, as well as Alibaba in Asia-Pacific, in the coming years, with the ecosystem generating value on top of the hyper scalers hardware, software, and tools.

We do not, however, perceive this as a race to the bottom. Rather, we anticipate that the major public cloud vendors will continue to innovate, automate, and integrate their platforms to reduce costs. Hyperscale clouds will be used by other cloud providers and the ecosystem, including traditional information technology purchasers, to mine opportunities in their respective industries. It’s not a zero-sum game here.