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Marc Ewing is an American computer engineer and entrepreneur. He is the creator and originator of the Red Hat brand of software, most notably the Red Hat range of Linux operating system distributions. He was involved in the 86open project in the mid-1990s.
Red Hat® Inc. began when a small businessman met a geek at a tech conference. Marc Ewing was the geek—hacking, debugging, and spinning his own distribution of Linux® on CDs from his home in Raleigh, North Carolina. Bob Young was the businessman—running a computer supply catalog business out of his home in Connecticut.
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“It is a great honor for me to be a part of Red Hat's history as we celebrate 30 years of excellence. Throughout my tenure here, I have had the privilege of working alongside a team of exceptional professionals, collaborating on and executing multiple technology innovation strategies in areas such as containers, edge and sustainability. Red Hat has...
“I think that the thing that has always struck me about Red Hat is collaboration. When I first joined Red Hat I was a new enablement program manager for marketing at the time. What really impressed me was any time I had a conversation with someone, they would introduce me to another Red Hatter who could further support me in my role. That willingne...
“While at Red Hat, I've learned that community is the heart of open source. Community helps increase communication, collaboration and innovation, but most importantly, it brings people together. It opens silos, ignites passion and encourages growth as individuals and in our business. The first day I started at Red Hat, I read on a wall, "Come Toget...
May 1, 2019 · Now, I quite like Shadowman, but I've been at this since Red Hat co-founders Bob Young and Marc Ewing launched Red Hat from Young's wife's sewing closet. Clearly, it was time for a...
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Jul 11, 2019 · There’s also the “fresh blood” of Red Hat talent. Young and co-founder Marc Ewing set out to build a company of free spirits that were as open as the Open Source foundations of Linux software.
> While at CMU, Marc Ewing was known to wear a red hat as he walked between classes. Because of his computer expertise, people would ask for help from the "man in the red hat". Ewing and co-founder Bob Young named their initial software after the hat, and the name Red Hat stuck.
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Apr 26, 1999 · DURHAM, N.C. -- Red Hat Inc. co-founder Marc Ewing planted the roots for Red Hat software in 1993, while studying computer science at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. Ewing,...
