Alexander Terekhov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "Alfred M. Szmidt" wrote: > [...] >> >> Sure, why not. RedHat makes a couple millions a year. > > RedHat doesn't sell software, idiot. RedHat's CEO is on record > explaining that. See also their SEC fillings, retard.
Well, the last filing is at <URL:http://biz.yahoo.com/e/060710/rhat10-q.html>, and lo-and-behold, the largest revenue number there is US$ 71,492,000 for subscriptions. Those are described as Subscription revenue Subscription revenue, which is primarily comprised of direct and indirect sales of Red Hat enterprise technologies, increased by 45.2% or $22.3 million to $71.5 million for the three months ended May 31, 2006 from $49.2 million for the same period ended May 31, 2005. The increase in subscription revenue is being driven by subscriptions to our principal enterprise technology, Enterprise Linux, which has gained broad market acceptance in mission critical areas of computing and our international expansion. The increase is, in part, a result of the continued migration of larger enterprises in industries such as financial services to our Enterprise Linux platform from a proprietary Unix platform. Such demand has been experienced through all our distribution channels but has been more evident in our OEM, distributor and reseller relationships. We expect subscription revenue to continue an upward trend with the increased market acceptance for Linux and with our continued international expansion. In contrast, the training and service revenue is US$ 12,510,000. So what are you talking about? Software subscriptions make the bulk of their income. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
