Forbes - Red Hat Lives In Microsoft's Crosshair http://www.forbes.com/2002/07/16/0716redhat.html
So, how does a moneylosing $80 million (fiscal 2002 sales) company like Red Hat compete against one of the most powerful companies in the world? It helps immeasurably that Red Hat has friends in high places. Oracle (nasdaq: ORCL - news - people ), IBM, Dell, Intel (nasdaq: INTC - news - people ), Hewlett-Packard (nyse: HPQ - news - people ) and many others are devoting development and support resources to Red Hat Linux. Despite its size and influence, Microsoft cannot break such a rising tide.
