CIO Insight each year solicits its readers to vote on the top IT vendors. As you know, Red Hat was rated #1 for the last two years. Pretty impressive.
This year, Red Hat is still one of CIOs' top three vendors, as reported here. The interesting thing to me is not that Red Hat dropped a few places (I'd be ecstatic to be in the top 10, much less consistently rated among the top three), but rather by who sits in the top two slots:
CDW and Trend Micro. Resellers, both of them.
In other words, Red Hat is still the top software company for value (and Cisco is the top hardware company). In fact, as seen below, Red Hat (of all vendors) was
- Rated #1 for increasing those company's revenues;
- Rated #2 for lowering costs; and
- Rated #3 for meeting ROI expectations.
- 90% of its customers would do business with it again.
This is tail-kicking performance and execution. People wondering why Red Hat continues to generate excellent bookings and profit growth need look no further than these numbers. Something for all open source companies to emulate. (Btw, Novell was #23 and Microsoft was #24, which is great for both companies, but not quite #3.)
Posted by Matt Asay on December 6, 2006 10:40 AM
