Red Hat's 30th Anniversary: How a Microsoft Competitor Rose from an Apartment-Based Startup

For Red Hat's 30th anniversary, North Carolina's News & Observer newspaper ran a special four-part series of articles.In the first article Red Hat co-founder Bob Young remembers Red Hat's first big breakthrough: winning InfoWorld's "OS of the Year" award in 1998 — at a time when Microsoft's Windows controlled 85% of the market.
"How is that possible," Young said, "that one of the world's biggest technology companies, on this strategically critical product, loses the product of the year