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Red Hat: Company profile

...Hat Red Hat Software was created one year later when Canadian entrepreneur Bob Young bought Ewing's business and merged it with his Linux and... Read more

4 August, 2010 by Tim Ferguson

Red Hat names new chairman

...chief executive Matthew Szulik chairman of the board of directors. Szulik replaces Bob Young, a Red Hat founder, who will continue to serve as a... Read more

11 April, 2002 by Tiffany Kary

Open source is here to stay

I feel badly for PC Week's John Taschek ("Open source is a road to nowhere"). Not understanding one of the biggest shifts in the industry since the PC in the early '80s is a career-limiting mistake for a journalist who specializes in covering technology. Read more

4 May, 2000 by Bob Young

Red Hat aims for the high ground

...all the same in the long run, according to Red Hat chairman Bob Young. Linux is shifting steadily from its days of hype as a... Read more

4 February, 2002 by Matthew Broersma

Corel's Cowpland steps down

...his brilliance -- had become a liability to Corel years ago. Others, like Bob Young, Red Hat's chairman, were more charitable. "Cowpland was a very... Read more

31 August, 2000 by Steven J.Vaughan Nichols

Hello GNOME, Adios KDE

...Linux, make that potentially very big money -- is concerned. Red Hat CEO Bob Young noted the irony. Here they were announcing agreement by an industry... Read more

16 August, 2000 by Charles Cooper

Bob Young - ringmaster extraordinaire

...The life of an entrepreneur is often, by its very nature, serial. Bob Young is a typical example. He recently resigned as chairman of Linux... Read more

26 July, 2002 by Kate Hanaghan

Red Hat: Linux will never compete with Windows

...2001 financial year. In this conversation with ZDNet UK, Red Hat chairman Bob Young explains why converting Unix customers is easy, why open source will... Read more

4 February, 2002 by Matthew Broersma

Red Hat founder joins the circus

Bob Young trades Red Hat for a top hat... Known for sporting a... Read more

5 September, 2002 by Robert Lemos

John Lamb's Week: The surreal world of market research

Bob Young, founder and chairman of one of the best known Linux distributors... Read more

14 May, 2001 by John Lamb
Red Hat to replace chief executive

Red Hat to replace chief executive

...former chief operating officer. Szulik, who took over as chief executive from Bob Young in 1999 just a few months after Red Hat's initial... Read more

21 December, 2007 by Stephen Shankland

Beowulf cluster man becomes a Penguin

...and will maintain its brand name. Scyld investors include Red Hat cofounder Bob Young; Penguin investors include ING Capital and Dragon Venture. Is Linux really... Read more

10 June, 2003 by Stephen Shankland

News Schmooze: Linux unites, partly

...Red Hat, MandrakeSoft et al are all buddies. Unfortunately, Red Hat's Bob Young isn't quite playing along, as he has in the past... Read more

31 May, 2002 by ZDNet UK

Linux vendors move to standard platform

Four Linux distributors - Caldera, SuSE, Turbolinux and Conectiva - are to back a standard software distribution, as a way of encouraging application development and battling the dominant position of Red Hat Read more

30 May, 2002 by Matthew Broersma

Linux vendors to unify efforts

SuSE, Caldera and Turbolinux are to join their Linux efforts in an effort to combat the fragmentation of the operating system and the dominant market share of Red Hat Read more

29 May, 2002 by Matthew Broersma

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