Red Hat

Red Hat, LLC (formerly Red Hat Software, Inc. and then Red Hat, Inc.) is an American software company that provides open source software products to enterprises and is a subsidiary of IBM. Founded in 1993, it has its corporate headquarters in Raleigh, North Carolina, with other offices worldwide. Red Hat has become associated to a large extent with its enterprise operating system Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and has grown beyond Linux to include the OpenShift Container Platform and the Ansible Automation Platform. It provides operating system platforms, middleware, applications, management products, support, training and consulting services, creates, maintains and contributes to many free software projects, and in 2025 was the third-largest corporate contributor to the Linux kernel, behind Intel and Google.