Red Hat sales of 3 billion dollars CEO5 year watches

Sina Tech News Watches Beijing time on June 23 news, Red Hat CEO jimu·huaitehesite (JimTAG Heuer Watches Kenneth Cole Watches Watches Whitehurst) said on Thursday Because of the increasingly popular cloud computing market, the company's goal is to increase twice in 5 years sales reached $ 3 billion.

43, Whitehurst said in an interview the same day in Beijing: "we will accelerate the growth of cloud computing business. Us, market opportunities because all current new developments around Linux, more widely speaking, is around open source platform started. In General, relies on open source cloud computing. "Whitehurst Red Hat's revenues this year are expected to reach $ 1 billion, which is also his goals in the 2008 first.

Whitehurst pointed out that sales to double in three years was not a particularly prominent targets, shift to cloud computing and the upgrading of Unix system to a Linux system will promote sales growth in the Red Hat give more impetus, and the company in the Chinese market will grow at the fastest. Red Riding Hood in the 12 months up to February this year, sales of 909 million dollars, the company forecast revenue could reach $ 1.09 billion this fiscal year on Wednesday.

in 2004 Red Hat entered the Chinese market. Red Hat said in May this year, the company's revenue from overseas markets 40% contributions, more than half the employees in the United States outside of work, is currently includes China, the Czech Republic, India, national recruiting engineers. Whitehurst says Red Hat's total number of employees in China last year grew 1 time, around 300 people, planned for this year on the basis of further 50%, but he declined to give specific sales figures for the Red Hat in China.

Red Hat has released first-quarter earnings on Wednesday, results showed that excluding one-time items, the company when Ji Ying received amounted to $ 264.7 million, or about 24 cents per share, above analysts ' expectations. Analysts had expected Red Hat first-quarter revenues amounted to $ 253.6 million, or about 22 cents per share. In the New York Stock Exchange on Wednesday, the Red Hat shares closed at $ 43.72, dropped slightly compared with the previous trading day 0.1%, this year has dropped by 4.2%. (Xuan Chen)