Red Hat Expands Developer Tools Business

[HardOCP News]

C|Net is expecting Red Hat to announce a new initiative aimed at boosting its development tools business and reach out to more programmers.

By expanding in open-source development tools, Red Hat intends to boost its revenue from support and distribution services. The company also hopes to encourage programmers to create applications that run on Red Hat's Linux software and JBoss Java application server, he said.