Red Hat Makes Another Embedded Linux Acquisition
News Earlier this year, Red Hat completed its acquisition of Cygnus Solutions, a prominent open source embedded technology and development tool company. With the addition of Cygnus and WireSpeed, Red Hat's Client Services Group now consists of more than...
[June 15, 2000, 7:43]
Red Hat Embraces Embedded Linux
News It's a potential that Michael Tiemann, Red Hat's chief technology officer and co-founder of Cygnus Solutions, said he thinks could be wasted. RHTED, the first fruit of a merger between Cygnus Solutions -- a major programming corporation in its own...
[February 1, 2000, 13:24]
Red Hat Buys Cygnus For $674m
News Red Hat said Monday it will buy privately-held Cygnus Solutions for about $674m (£417m) in a move to accelerate the adoption of Red Hat Linux. Cygnus, a maker of open-source software, will give Red Hat ammunition to build out Linux, which was the...
[November 15, 1999, 16:36]
Famed Open-source Compiler Gets A Face Lift
News Much of GCC's development has been supported by Linux seller Red Hat, after its 1999 acquisition of Cygnus Solutions, a company whose business was adapting GCC so it could support new chips. Nortel was Cygnus' first major customer, in 1990.
[June 20, 2001, 9:32]
Penguins: Name Your Price
News With a sizeable war chest from its recent IPO, Red Hat has purchased Cygnus Solutions, a leading maker of software development programs. Prior to its Cygnus purchase, Red Hat had been pursuing leading Linux support company, Linuxcare, according to...
[November 29, 1999, 17:14]
Embedded Linux Alive And Kicking
News The best-known Linux company--and the first to go public--is Red Hat, which launched its embedded push through its acquisition of Cygnus Solutions in 1999. Cygnus sold services and programming tools key to cracking the embedded market and enjoyed...
[January 24, 2002, 8:52]
Will New Chip Perk Up Embedded Red Hat?
News Red Hat acquired Cygnus Solutions and its GCC programmers in 1999; Alexandre Oliva, a programmer with Red Hat, added the SH-5 port to the GCC project on 9 February. Red Hat, the top seller of the Linux operating system, announced a deal Wednesday...
[February 14, 2002, 9:08]
Red Hat Misses Estimates -- Splits Stock
News In the third quarter, Red Hat announced numerous deals, including the acquisition of Cygnus Solutions and a strategic pact with Dell. Red Hat missed estimates by a penny Monday in its third quarter, but said it would issue a 2-for-1 stock split.
[December 20, 1999, 13:33]
GCC Gets An Overhaul
News A company called Cygnus Solutions, an open source business pioneer acquired in 1999 by Linux seller Red Hat, funded much of the compiler's development. The entire realm of open source software could get a performance boost if all goes well with a...
[March 15, 2005, 11:00]
Linux: Following The Money
News Michael Tiemann, who founded Cygnus Solutions in 1989, said that a few years ago "you couldn't even mention with word 'free' without people chasing you out of the building". Two weeks after the wildly successful initial public offering of Red Hat...
[August 24, 1999, 9:16]
Red Hat Restructure Puts Focus On Big Clients
News Red Hat acquired its embedded business when it bought programming toolmaker Cygnus Solutions in 1999. Red Hat, the top seller of the Linux operating system, has restructured to focus on big customers while cutting jobs elsewhere, executives said on...
[March 20, 2002, 10:14]
The Day Ahead: CFO Search Hover Over Red Hat Earnings
News Acquisition integration: Red Hat has acquired Cygnus Solutions, Bluecurve and WireSpeed in the last year. Aside from the usual top-line and bottom-line tallies, analysts are looking for fissures that could indicate problems ahead.
[September 13, 2000, 11:19]
IS Looking Forward To LinuxWorld
News Cygnus Solutions, of Sunnyvale, California, will optimise its Linux developer tools for the Pentium II architecture. At the centre of HP's plans is a new division called the Open Source Solutions Operation.
[March 1, 1999, 15:02]
LinuxWorld: Grove Promises Linux-compatible Merced
News Cygnus Solutions and Intel. Intel Chairman Andy Grove said Tuesday that Intel's first 64-bit processor, code-named Merced, will yield silicon "in a few weeks time" and that "we will know then whether it works or it doesn't".
[August 11, 1999, 9:58]
Red Hat, HP Join For Itanium Linux
News A company it acquired in 1999, Cygnus Solutions, had been working on an open-source operating system called eCos, which could run on electronic devices that have very little memory, such as Brother laser printers.
[June 19, 2002, 9:15]
The Day Ahead: Caldera Preps IPO As Linux Hype Fades
News Cygnus Solutions, owned by Red Hat, VA Linux and Wind River, provides similar software with its hardware packages. But losing some of Linux hype is healthy for the market, although it's not going to do Caldera any good.
[March 16, 2000, 12:22]
