[Nikkei BP Society] The US Red Hat announced the performance of 2004 in the second quarter (June ~ August quarter). The quarter's turnover is $ 46.3 million, an increase of 60% from the same quarter last year. 11% increased from $ 41.8 million in the previous quarter. Pure profit was 11.8 million US dollars (6 cents per share), which increased by 225% over the same quarter of the previous year. The previous quarter is $ 10.9 million (6 cents per share).
This quarter's operating cash flow is $ 30.8 million (16 cents per share), cash and investment totaled $ 9.977 billion.
"Red Hat Enterprise Linux" has reached 140,000 sets of sales. Among them, 115,000 sets from the company's new and updated IT servers, add 2,9,000 sets from HPC / host managed services and desktop. Operating profits increased to $ 6.7 million, accounting for 15% of turnover. Since the company expands its business around the world, the number of employees has increased by 10%.
"As the performance is reflected, the demand for the company continues to be strong. Global business is also overall success." (The company implements vice president and CFO Charlie Peters)
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