On the Record · Red Hat
Red Hat competitors, on the record
The companies Red Hat names as competitors in its annual reports, 2017 to 2019, and the companies that name Red Hat, each with the sentence and the filing.
Who Red Hat names
| Company | Named in |
|---|---|
| AWS | 2019 |
| Docker Inc. | 2019 |
| EQT Partners | 2019 |
| 2019 | |
| HPE | 2019 |
| IBM | 2019 |
| Microsoft | 2019 |
| Mirantis Inc. | 2019 |
| MuleSoft, Inc. | 2019 |
| Oracle | 2019 |
| Pegasystems Inc. | 2019 |
| Pivotal Software, Inc. | 2019 |
| TIBCO Software Inc. | 2019 |
| Unisys Corporation | 2019 |
| VMware | 2019 |
In its own words
AWS, EQT Partners
Word for word“With respect to Linux operating systems, our competitors include AWS, with its Amazon Linux 2, EQT Partners, with its SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, and Oracle, with its Oracle Linux product.” 10-K for 2019
Docker Inc., Google
Word for word“With respect to our emerging technology offerings, we compete with companies that provide tools for enterprises to create private or hybrid cloud environments, such as Docker Inc., Microsoft, Mirantis Inc. (“Mirantis”), Oracle, Pivotal and VMware, companies that provide platform as a service offerings, such as IBM, Oracle and Pivotal, and companies that provide public clouds with, and that allow users to consume, computing resources as a service without the need to purchase equipment or software, such as AWS, Google and Microsoft.” 10-K for 2019
HPE, IBM, Oracle, Unisys Corporation
Word for word“Moreover, we also compete with HPE, IBM, Oracle and Unisys Corporation, each of which offers a UNIX operating system.” 10-K for 2019
Microsoft
Word for word“With respect to our operating system offerings, our competitors include Microsoft, which offers a hardware-independent, multi-user operating system that has a larger, more diverse ecosystem of third-party enterprise applications than the Red Hat Enterprise Linux ecosystem.” 10-K for 2019
Mirantis Inc.
Word for word“Our competitors in these markets include Mirantis and Pivotal, as well as other technology consulting and training companies.” 10-K for 2019
MuleSoft, Inc., Pegasystems Inc., Pivotal Software, Inc., TIBCO Software Inc.
Word for word“With respect to our middleware offerings, our competitors include AWS, IBM, Microsoft, MuleSoft, Inc., Oracle, Pegasystems Inc., Pivotal Software, Inc. (“Pivotal”) and TIBCO Software Inc.” 10-K for 2019
VMware
Word for word“With respect to our virtualization offerings, our competitors include Microsoft, Oracle and VMware.” 10-K for 2019
Who names Red Hat
Companies whose own annual reports name Red Hat as a competitor.
Word for word“• Denso Corporation • Gentex Corporation • Harman International (a subsidiary of Samsung Electronics) • Mobileye • Nutanix • Red Hat • Valeo” 10-K for 2025
Word for word“On premise, there are a number of vendors with legacy products that have pivoted into this space including TIBCO Streaming, Cloudera Dataflow, Red Hat (IBM) AMQ Streams, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Streaming.” 10-K for 2025
Word for word“For example, in 2019, one of our important partners and customers, IBM, acquired Red Hat, one of our competitors in the cloud native applications space.” 10-K for 2023
Read from Red Hat’s annual reports (10-K for 2019, 10-K for 2018, 10-K for 2017) and the financial data it files with the SEC, as of 2019-04-24. Every quotation is word for word from the filing linked beside it; how these pages are built and checked. The full record is in its company data sheet.