Red Hat (vendor analysis)

Content

• Overview
• The Ovum view
• SWOT analysis
• Strengths
• Weaknesses
• Opportunities
• Threats
• Products and services
• Products
• Subscriptions
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
• JBoss Enterprise Middleware (JEM)
• System management
• Virtualisation offering
• Identity management
• Services
• Service revenues bounce back
• It will continue to grow and become international
• Consulting up, training down
• Support gets longer and simpler
• Products + services = solutions
• Third-party products + support = stacks (no longer pursued)
• Multi-vendor support + sales = unsuccessful Red Hat Exchange (RHX)
• Strategy
• Strategy objectives
• Strategy execution
• Becoming a $1 billion company
• Establishing itself as a key open source software vendor
• Becoming a global virtualisation player
• Continuing as the largest Linux provider
• Growing middleware revenues
• Expanding into the system and identity management market
• Future outlook
• Slower growth
• System and identity management
• Acquisition
• Financial analysis
• Key financials
• Rapid but slowing revenue growth
• Predictable revenues
• Services starting to catch up
• Profitability decrease
• Cash-rich and debt-free
• List of Tables
  • Table 1: Red Hat key financial indicators