| By Maureen O'Gara | Article Rating: |
|
| July 3, 2008 08:30 AM EDT | Reads: |
3,655 |
Red Hat saw earnings rise 6.6% to $17.3 million, or eight cents a share in
its first fiscal quarter ended May 31 on revenue up 32% year-over-year and 11%
sequentially to $156.6 million. EPS was dead flat year-over-year. Subscription
revenue was $130.7 million, up 27% year-over-year and up 7% sequentially.
Training and services were up 64% to $25.9 million.
Non-GAAP income was $37 million, or 18 cents a share, up from $33.7 million, or 16 cents a share, a year ago, putting it in line with estimates.
Operating cash flow totaled $63.4 million, compared to $39.7 million a year ago and $54.5 million sequentially. Total deferred revenues stand at $491.8 million, up 36% year-over-year and 4% sequentially. It has $1.35 billion in the bank.
Sales and marketing expenses were up 28% to $59.3 million and R&D was up 33% to $28.9 million.
This time through the company’s 25 top customers renewed their subscriptions.
It is projecting revenues this year of $665 million-$680 million returning 78 cents to 82 cents a share after adjustments. Wall Street’s estimates are roughly in the middle. For this quarter it’s saying $162 million-$164 million and non-GAAP ESP of 18 cents, a penny under Wall Street.
Published July 3, 2008 Reads 3,655
Copyright © 2008 SYS-CON Media, Inc. — All Rights Reserved.
Syndicated stories and blog feeds, all rights reserved by the author.
About Maureen O'Gara
Maureen O'Gara the most read technology reporter for the past 20 years, is the Cloud Computing and Virtualization News Desk editor of SYS-CON Media. She is the publisher of famous "Billygrams" and the editor-in-chief of "Client/Server News" for more than a decade. One of the most respected technology reporters in the business, Maureen can be reached by email at maureen(at)sys-con.com or paperboy(at)g2news.com, and by phone at 516 759-7025.
- Java Kicks Ruby on Rails in the Butt
- Oracle-Sun: Jonathan Schwartz Writes His Toughest Ever Email
- Ulitzer’s Amazing First 30 Days in Public Beta
- "Government IT Expo" to Highlight Cloud Computing and SOA
- Will Ulitzer Dominate News Content on The Web? -Gartner
- Clear Toolkit 4: The Road Map
- Building Private and Hybrid Clouds with Ubuntu 9.04
- Ulitzer Responds to Published Reports
- Hadoop Start-up Attracts Glitterati Investors
- Google Opens Half-Way House for Code
- Java Kicks Ruby on Rails in the Butt
- Oracle-Sun: Jonathan Schwartz Writes His Toughest Ever Email
- Ulitzer’s Amazing First 30 Days in Public Beta
- "Government IT Expo" to Highlight Cloud Computing and SOA
- Will Ulitzer Dominate News Content on The Web? -Gartner
- Micro Focus Offers Micro Focus COBOL for Eclipse
- Seven Predictions for Open Source in 2009
- Clear Toolkit 4: The Road Map
- Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz Scopes Out Future for Sun's Cloud
- SCO Files Reorg Plan
- After Ubuntu, Windows Looks Increasingly Bad, Increasingly Archaic, Increasingly Unfriendly
- SCO CEO Posts Open Letter to the Open Source Community
- Simula Labs Launches Hosted Delivery Platform To Enable Enterprise Open Source Adoption
- Source Claims SCO Will Sue Google
- How Open Is "Open"? – Industry Luminaries Join the Debate
- Latest SCO News is Plain Weird
- IBM Tells SCO Court It Can't Find AIX-on-Power Code
- SCO Claims Linux Lifted ELF
- Flashback: Investing in 'Professional Open Source' - Exclusive 2004 Interview with David Skok, Matrix Partners
- HP Starts Pushing Desktop Linux





































