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Red Hat shakes off economic meltdown

 
Q3 profits better than expected While commercial Linux distributor Red Hat has not grown enough to justify the ridiculous valuations that Wall Street put on the company when it went public a decade ago, the company is more or less on track to break $1bn in sales in the next couple years.… (link)

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