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• is an American multinational software company providing open-source software products to the enterprise community
• Founded in 1993, Red Hat has its corporate headquarters in Raleigh, North Carolina, with satellite offices worldwide
• Red Hat has become associated to a large extent with its enterprise operating system Red Hat Enterprise Linux and with the acquisition of open-source enterprise middleware vendor JBoss
• Red Hat also offers Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV), an enterprise virtualization product
• Red Hat provides storage, operating system platforms, middleware, applications, management products, and support, training, and consulting services
• Red Hat creates, maintains, and contributes to many free software projects
• It has acquired several proprietary software product codebases through corporate mergers and acquisitions and has released such software under open source licenses
• As of March 2016, Red Hat is the second largest corporate contributor to the Linux kernel version 4
• 5 after Intel