Red Hat, Inc. is an American multinational software company providing open-source software products to the enterprise community.
Red Hat creates, maintains, and contributes to many free software projects. It has acquired several proprietary software product codebases through corporate mergers and acquisitions and has released such software under open source licenses.
## Company size
9300 employees (May 2016)
## Remote status
Red Hat has its corporate headquarters in Raleigh, North Carolina, with satellite offices worldwide. Depending on the team, Red Hat employees use email, IRC and various other tools to communicate with their colleagues and other community members.
## Region
Worldwide
## Company technologies
- [Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)](https://www.redhat.com/en/technologies/linux-platforms/enterprise-linux)
- [Fedora](https://getfedora.org/)
- C, C++, Java, Python, Ruby, ...
- and [many, many more](http://community.redhat.com/software/)