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Article: The hat trick.(Red Hat Software Inc.)(Cover Story)
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- Business North Carolina
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- June 1, 1999
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The media turned a tiny Triangle software distributor into a giant killer. What does Red Hat have under its cap?
A New York Times reporter flew down to Durham for an afternoon to find out what the buzz was about. Her story on Red Hat Software Inc. ran on the front of the business section in September. The Wall Street Journal sent a writer. His piece made the front page in December. The Washington Post wanted to know if the little company really was a Microsoft killer. USA Today directed readers to the software distributor in a story on how to get hold of a hot operating system for servers called Linux (rhymes with cynics). Even the New York Daily News, a tabloid ...