Where does Red Hat grow from here?
By just about any measure, Red Hat dominates its open-source competition and holds its own with big proprietary peers like Oracle and Microsoft, as this Wolfram Alpha analysis suggests. Though far smaller than Oracle and Microsoft, it continues to outpace rivals in year-to-date returns on its stock, among other things.
But where does Red Hat go from here? Or, more pertinently, where does it grow from here?
Red Hat's open-source business model has proved financially sound, but it's unclear that it applies beyond complex infrastructure software like operating systems and application servers. Red Hat's own CTO, Brian Stevens, once said as much:
I don't think you can take one finite element - like Apache - and make a business out of it [using our model]. You need product complexity.
This may prevent Red Hat from entering the most profitable markets like enterprise applications, focusing instead on being a leading infrastructure-only player.
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