Under the Radar: How Red Hat Changed the Software Business--and Took Microsoft by Surprise

Documents the history of Red Hat, Inc. and how it revolutionized the software industry

In just four years, Robert Young has taken Red Hat, Inc. from a fledgling start-up company to a leading global supplier of the Linux operating system. Robert has 20 years of computer industry finance and marketing experience as the head of two computer leasing companies. This experience, combined with Robert's innate marketing saavy, is a core strength of Red Hat, Inc. Robert graduated with honors from the University of Toronto prior to pursuing careers in the computer finance arena. Seeing an opportunity with a phenomenon called Linux in 1993, Robert founded a Linux distributrion and catalog business that later merged with Mark Ewing's organization to form Red Hat, Inc.

Wendy Goldman Rohm is an award-winning investigative journalist and author of the best-selling book, The Microsoft File: The Secret Case Against Bill Gates.