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Red Hat's headquarters are in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Red Hat is an American computer software company based in Raleigh, North Carolina. The company was founded in 1995, when ACC Corporation—a company founded by Bob Young in 1993—and Red Hat Linux—an operating system created by Marc Ewing—merged to form Red Hat Software, and Young was appointed chief executive officer.^[1] Red Hat had its initial public offering on August 11, 1999; it was the eighth-biggest first-day gain in Wall Street history.^[2] The company has acquired sixteen companies and made four divestments. Red Hat has not released the financial details for most of these mergers and acquisitions.

Red Hat's first major acquisition was Delix Computer GmbH-Linux Div, the Linux operating system division of Delix Computer, a German computer company, on July 30, 1999. Red Hat acquired Cygnus Solutions, a company that provided commercial support for free software, on January 11, 2000. Michael Tiemann, co-founder of Cygnus, served as the chief technical officer of Red Hat after the acquisition. On June 5, 2006, Red Hat acquired open source middleware provider JBoss for $420 million and integrated it as its own division of Red Hat.

On December 14, 1998, Red Hat made its first divestment, in which parts of the company are sold to another company, when Intel acquired an undisclosed minority stake. The next year, on March 9, 1999, Compaq, IBM, and Novell each acquired undisclosed minority stakes in Red Hat. The company's largest acquisition was Cygnus Solutions in January 2000 for $674 million. Red Hat made the most acquisitions in 2000 with five: Cygnus Solutions, Bluecurve, Wirespeed Communications, Hell's Kitchen Systems, and C2Net.

Acquisitions

Date	Company	Business	Country	Value (USD)	References
01999-07-13 July 13, 1999	Atomic Vision	Website Design	United States	—	[3][4]
01999-07-30 July 30, 1999	Delix Computer GmbH-Linux Div[note 1]	Computers and software	Germany	—	[5]
02000-01-11 January 11, 2000	Cygnus Solutions	Software	United States	$&0000000674444000.000000674,444,000	[6]
02000-05-26 May 26, 2000	Bluecurve	IT management software	United States	$&0000000037107000.00000037,107,000	[7]
02000-08-01 August 1, 2000	Wirespeed Communications	Internet software	United States	$&0000000083963000.00000083,963,000	[8]
02000-08-15 August 15, 2000	Hell's Kitchen Systems	Internet software	United States	$&0000000085624000.00000085,624,000	[9]
02000-09-13 September 13, 2000	C2Net	Internet software	United States	$&0000000039983000.00000039,983,000	[10]
02001-02-05 February 5, 2001	Akopia	Ecommerce web sites	United States	—	[11]
02001-02-28 February 28, 2001	Planning Technologies	Consulting	United States	$&0000000047000000.00000047,000,000	[12]
02002-10-15 October 15, 2002	NOCpulse	Software	United States	—	[13]
02004-09-30 September 30, 2004	Netscape Security-Certain Asts[note 2]	Certain assets	United States	—	[14]
02006-06-05 June 5, 2006	JBoss	Middleware	United States	$&0000000420000000.000000420,000,000	[15]
02007-06-06 June 6, 2007	MetaMatrix	Information management software	United States	—	[16]
02008-03-13 March 13, 2008	Amentra	Consulting	United States	—	[17]
02008-06-04 June 4, 2008	Identyx	Software	United States	—	[18]
02008-09-04 September 4, 2008	Qumranet	Enterprise software	United States	$&0000000107000000.000000107,000,000	[19]

Divestitures

Date	Acquirer	Target company	Target business	Acquirer country	Value (USD)	References
01998-12-14 December 14, 1998	Intel Corporation	Red Hat[note 3]	Open source software	United States	—	[20]
01999-03-09 March 9, 1999	Compaq	Red Hat[note 4]	Open source software	United States	—	[21]
01999-03-09 March 9, 1999	IBM	Red Hat[note 5]	Open source software	United States	—	[22]
01999-03-09 March 9, 1999	Novell	Red Hat[note 6]	Open source software	United States	—	[23]

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