$3 billion in sales is Red Hat goal

Whitehurst, who is traveling overseas this week, told Bloomberg News while an interview in Beijing that the increased popularity of cloud computing will turbocharge the Linux software company's sales.

The growth rate of the business

"We will accelerate the growth rate of the business," Whitehurst said. "The market is coming to us because all the new development is happening on Linux or, more broadly, on an open-source platform."

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