Red Hat

Noun · Open Source

Definitions

  1. The enterprise software company best known for building commercial products and support businesses around open source, especially Linux through Red Hat Enterprise Linux. In open source history, Red Hat is a major example of open source commercialization at scale.

    In plain English: A major company known for building enterprise products and services around open source software.

    Example: "The deployment target was Red Hat because the customer’s compliance program was standardized around that ecosystem."

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