Red Hat Linux topped 300,000 subscribers in Q1

The Linux vendor reported revenue of $41M in the quarter

By Robert McMillan

June 18, 2004 12:00 PM ET

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IDG News Service - Red Hat Inc. now has over 300,000 subscribers to its Red Hat Enterprise Linux support service, the company said yesterday during a conference call reporting the results of its first quarter of 2004. The company reported revenue of $41.6 million and net income of $10.7 million, or 5 cents per share, for the quarter that ended May 31.
Red Hat added 98,000 subscriptions during the quarter, up 13% from the 87,000 new customers reported during the fourth quarter of 2003. Enterprise customers purchased 75,000 of the subscriptions sold during the quarter, and the other 23,000 were sold to high-performance computing and Web hosting customers, the company said.
Revenue for the quarter was slightly below Wall Street's expectations, which averaged $43 million, according to a survey of 16 analysts by Thomson Financial/First Call.
Earnings per share were a penny more than the 4 cents expected by a Thomson/First Call poll of 20 analysts.
Red Hat surprised the financial community this week by announcing that the company's chief financial officer, Kevin Thompson, planned to step down.
Thompson, who has been with Red Hat for nearly four years, is leaving to spend more time with his family. But he is expected to stay with the company until a replacement is found, Red Hat said.
The company has already begun a search for a new CFO, who is expected to be hired within the next 90 days, according to Matthew Szulik, Red Hat's CEO.
"We're looking for someone that has the experience of managing a larger business," he said. "Collectively, we're very pleased with the quality of candidates that have been presented to us, considering that the search has been ongoing for a very short period of time."

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