The Economic Impact of Red Hat Enterprise Linux
In 2019, IDC published a white paper on the economic footprint of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), the costs saving and revenue enhancement advantages using RHEL offered to customers over other versions of Linux. But then the COVID-19 pandemic came online adn remains with us.
With a new survey, updated market tracking forecasts, and updated global economic forecasts, we revisit and update our previous document now.
Read on to explore:
▪ The overall RHEL footprint — the dollars of revenue or expenses "touched" by the server workloads running on RHEL
▪ How the use of RHEL in support of business activities will provide financial benefits to customers of $1.7 trillion in 2022, almost evenly divided between increased revenue and lower costs.
▪ The RHEL ecosystem will make more than $100 billion this year and will grow to $138 billion in 2026 at a CAGR of 8%. For every dollar of revenue made by Red Hat in 2022, the ecosystem will make $22.60.