1. INTRODUCTION

1.1 Introduction to in-plant training

In-plant training or Industrial training is a mandatory course for all degree students of

Maharashtra Institute of Technology (MIT). It is a requirement to fulfill the course in

order to complete the degree as well as graduate from the university. The training

refers to work experience that is relevant to professional development prior to

graduation. For MIT students, a 20 weeks’ period is allocated for training at locations

chosen by students themselves. No restriction is imposed on them whether they want

to work in government agencies or private organizations.

1.2 Objectives of In-plant Training

The objectives of industrial training are as follow:

1. To fulfill the award of the degree of Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada

University

2. Apply theories learnt in classroom in working environments

3. Solidifies students' confidence after graduation

4. Improve both soft and hard skills

5. Improve communication and management skills

6. To get an Industrial exposure.

7. To be aware of the happening in a particular industry.

8. To achieve knowledge about different sectors in market for making choice as to

which go for.

9. To learn functioning and operations of different departments in an organization.

10. To get knowledge about the working culture of the organization.

2. COMPANY PROFILE (GLOBAL)

Type Public

Industry Computer Software

Year of Establishment 1993; 23 years ago

Founder Bob Young, Marc Ewing

Headquarters Raleigh, North Carolina, U.S

Revenue US$ 1.534 billion (2014)

Building Infrastructure Permanent

Number of employees 8,300 (November 2015)

3.COMPANY OVERVIEW

Red Hat, Inc. is an American multinational software company providing open-

source software products to the enterprise community. Founded in 1993, Red Hat has

its corporate headquarters in Raleigh, North Carolina, with satellite offices worldwide.

Red Hat has become associated to a large extent with its enterprise operating system

Red Hat Enterprise Linux and with the acquisition of open-source enterprise

middleware vendor JBoss. Red Hat also offers Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization

(RHEV), an enterprise virtualization product. Red Hat provides storage, operating

system platforms, middleware, applications, management products, and support,

training, and consulting services. 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. As of June 2013, Red Hat is the largest corporate contributor to Linux.

Fig 3.1 Red hat’s Headquarters, Raleigh, NA.HISTORY & EVENTS

In 1993 Bob Young incorporated the ACC Corporation, a catalog business that

sold Linux and Unix software accessories. In 1994 Marc Ewing created his own Linux

distribution, which he named Red Hat Linux (Ewing had worn a red Cornell

University lacrosse hat, given to him by his grandfather, while attending Carnegie

Mellon University). Ewing released the software in October, and it became known as

the Halloween release. Young bought Ewing's business in 1995, and the two merged to

become Red Hat Software, with Young serving as chief executive officer (CEO). Red

Hat went public on August 11, 1999, achieving the eighth-biggest first-day gain in the

history of Wall Street. Matthew Szulik succeeded Bob Young as CEO in December of

that year. Bob Young went on to found the online print on demand and self-publishing

company, Lulu in 2002. Before its IPO, Red Hat had received some funding from

Joyce Young, the aunt of founder Bob Young. When Red Hat went public, she cashed

in enough stock to recoup her initial investment, then left the remaining stock to linger,

"for fun". Her return on investment was so great that, by January 2000 she was a

millionaire, allowing her to donate US $29 million to the Hamilton Community

Foundation in June 2000.

On November 15, 1999, Red Hat acquired Cygnus Solutions. Cygnus provided

commercial support for free software and housed maintainers of GNU software

products such as the GNU Debugger and GNU Binutils. One of the founders of

Cygnus, Michael Tiemann, became the chief technical officer of Red Hat and by 2008

the vice president of open source affairs. Later Red Hat acquired WireSpeed, C2Net

and Hell's Kitchen Systems. In February 2000, InfoWorld awarded Red Hat its fourth

consecutive "Operating System Product of the Year" award for Red Hat Linux 6.1.

Red Hat acquired Planning Technologies, Inc in 2001 and AOL's iPlanet directory and

certificate-server software in 2004. Red Hat moved its headquarters from Durham to

North Carolina State University's Centennial Campus in Raleigh, North Carolina in

February 2002. In the following month Red Hat introduced Red Hat Linux Advanced

Server, later renamed Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). Dell, IBM, HP and Oracle

Corporation announced their support of the platform. In December 2005 CIO Insight

magazine conducted its annual "Vendor Value Survey", in which Red Hat ranked #1 in

value for the second year in a row. Red Hat stock became part of the NASDAQ-100 on

December 19, 2005. Red Hat acquired open-source middleware provider JBoss on

June 5, 2006, and JBoss became a division of Red Hat. On September 18, 2006, Red

Hat released the Red Hat Application Stack, which integrated the JBoss technology

and which was certified by other well-known software vendors. On December 12,

2006, Red Hat stock moved from trading on NASDAQ (RHAT) to the New York

Stock Exchange (RHT). In 2007 Red Hat acquired MetaMatrix and made an agreement

with Exadel to distribute its software. On March 15, 2007, Red Hat released Red Hat

Enterprise Linux 5, and in June acquired Mobicents. On March 13, 2008, Red Hat

acquired Amentra, a provider of systems integration services for service-oriented

architecture, business process management, systems development and enterprise data

services. Amentra operates as an independent company. On July 27, 2009, Red Hat

replaced CIT Group in Standard and Poor’s 500 stock index, a diversified index of 500

leading companies of the U.S. economy. This was reported as a major milestone for

Linux. On December 15, 2009, it was reported that Red Hat will pay $8.8 million to

settle a class action lawsuit related to the restatement of financial results from July

2004. The suit had been pending in US District Court in North Carolina. Red Hat

reached the proposed settlement agreement and recorded a one-time charge of $8.8

million for the quarter that ended Nov. 30.

On January 10, 2011, Red Hat announced that it would expand its headquarters

in two phases, adding 540 employees to the Raleigh operation, and investing over $109

million. The state of North Carolina is offering up to $15 million in incentives. The

second phase involves "expansion into new technologies such as software visualization

and technology cloud offerings". On August 25, 2011, Red Hat announced it would

move about 600 employees from the N.C. State Centennial Campus to Two Progress

Plaza downtown. A ribbon cutting ceremony was held June 24, 2013, in the re-branded

Red Hat Headquarters. In 2012, Red Hat became the first one-billion dollar open

source company, reaching $1.13 billion in annual revenue during its fiscal year. On

October 16, 2015, Red Hat announced its acquisition of IT automation start up

Ansible, rumored for an estimated $100M.

PROGRAMS & PROJECTS :

One Laptop per Child:

Red Hat engineers work with the One Laptop per Child initiative (a non-profit

organization established by members of the MIT Media Lab) to design and produce an

inexpensive laptop and provide every child in the world with access to open

communication, open knowledge, and open learning. The XO-4 laptop, the latest

machine of this project, runs a slimmed-down version of Fedora 17 as its operating

system.

Dogtail:

Dogtail, an open-source automated graphical user interface (GUI) test

framework initially developed by Red Hat, consists of free software released under the

GNU General Public License (GPL) and is written in Python. It allows developers to

build and test their applications. Red Hat announced the release of Dogtail at the 2006

Red Hat Summit.

MRG:

Red Hat MRG is a clustering infrastructure platform intended for integrated

high-performance computing (HPC). The acronym MRG stands for "Messaging

Realtime Grid”. Red Hat Enterprise MRG replaces the Red Hat Enterprise Linux

RHEL, a Linux distribution developed by Red Hat, kernel in order to provide extra

support for real-time computing, together with middleware support for message

brokerage and scheduling workload to local or remote virtual machines, grid, and

cloud infrastructures. As of 2011 Red Hat works with the Condor High-Throughput

Computing System community and also provides support for the software. The Tuna

performance-monitoring tool runs in the MRG environment.

Aims:

The platform strives to incorporate all the above aspects of HPC into one IT

infrastructure for better performance, reliability, and interoperability. It claims to

simplify and automate a range of IT tasks of deployment, operation, managing and

monitoring of clustered and distributed infrastructure and applications.

Opensource.com:

Red Hat produces the online publication Opensource.com. The site highlights

ways open source principles apply in domains other than software development. The

site tracks the application of open source philosophy to business, education,

government, law, health, and life.

The company originally produced a newsletter called Under the Brim. Wide Open

magazine first appeared in March 2004 as a means for Red Hat to share technical

content with subscribers on a regular basis. The Under the Brim newsletter and Wide

Open magazine merged in November

2004 to become Red Hat Magazine. In January 2010, Red Hat Magazine became

Opensource.com.

Red Hat Exchange:

In 2007 Red Hat announced that it had reached an agreement with some free

software and open source (FOSS) companies that allowed it to make a distribution

portal called Red Hat Exchange, reselling FOSS software with the original branding

intact. However, by 2010 Red Hat had abandoned the Exchange program to focus their

efforts more on their Open Source Channel Alliance which began in April 2009.

Red Hat India:

Red Hat, Inc created its subsidiary Red Hat India to deliver Red Hat software,

support, and services to customers in India. Colin Tenwick, vice president and general

manager of Red Hat EMEA said that "the opening of [Red Hat India] is in response to

the rapid adoption of Red Hat Linux in the subcontinent. Demand for open source

solutions from the Indian markets is rising and Red Hat wants to play a major role in

this region". Red Hat India has worked with local companies to enable adoption of

open source technology in both government and education. In 2006 Red Hat India had

a distribution network of more than 70 channel partners spanning 27 cities across

India. Red Hat India's channel partners included Ashtech Infotech Pvt Ltd, Efensys

Technologies, Embee Software, Allied Digital Services, and Softcell Technologies.

Distributors include Integra Micro Systems and Ingram Micro.

Acquisitions:

Date Company Business Country Value (USD)

July 13,

1999

Atomic Vision Website design United

States

—

July 30,

1999

Delix Computer

GmbH-Linux Div

Computers and

software

Germany —

January

11, 2000

Cygnus Solutions gcc, gdb, binutils United

States

$674,444,000

May 26,

2000

Bluecurve IT management

software

United

States

$37,107,000

August 1,

2000

Wirespeed

Communications

Internet software United

States

$83,963,000

August 15,

2000

Hell's Kitchen

Systems

Internet software United

States

$85,624,000

September

13, 2000

C2Net Internet software United

States

$39,983,000

February

5, 2001

Akopia Ecommerce

websites

United

States

—

February

28, 2001

Planning

Technologies

Consulting United

States

$47,000,000

February

11, 2002

ArsDigita Assets and

employees

United

States

—

October

15, 2002

NOCpulse Software United

States

—

December

18, 2003

Sistina Software GFS, LVM, DM United

States

$31,000,000

September

30, 2004

Netscape

Security-Certain

Asts

Certain assets United

States

—

June 5,

2006

JBoss Middleware United

States

$420,000,000

June 6,

2007

MetaMatrix Information

management

software

United

States

—

June 19,

2007

Mobicents Telecommunicatio

ns software

United

States

—

March 13,

2008

Amentra Consulting United

States

—

June 4,

2008

Identyx Software United

States

—

September

4, 2008

Qumranet KVM, RHEV,

SPICE

Israel $107,000,000

November

30, 2010

Makara Enterprise

software

United

States

—

October 4,

2011

Gluster GlusterFS United

States

$136,000,000

June 27,

2012

FuseSource Enterprise

software

United

States

—

August

28, 2012

Polymita Enterprise

software

Spain —

December

20, 2012

ManageIQ Orchestration

software

United

States

$104,000,000

January 7,

2014

The CentOS

Project

CentOS United

States

—

April 30,

2014

Inktank Storage Ceph United

States

$175,000,000

June 18,

2014

eNovance OpenStack

Integration

Services

France $95,000,000

FEDORA PROJECT

The Fedora Project is a project sponsored by Red Hat to co-ordinate the

development of the Linux-based Fedora operating system. The project was founded in

2003 as a result of a merger between the Red Hat Linux (RHL) and Fedora Linux

projects. The project consists not only of Red Hat employees, with community

members worldwide making up 75% of all contributors within the Fedora Project. The

Fedora Project was founded on 22 September 2003 when Red Hat decided to split Red

Hat Linux into Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and a community-based operating

system, Fedora. Red Hat Professional Workstation was created at this same time with

the intention of filling the niche that RHL had once filled but it was created without a

certain future. This option quickly fell to the wayside for non-enterprise RHL users in

favor of Fedora. The Fedora community continues to thrive and the Fedora distribution

has a reputation as being a FOSS distribution that focuses on innovation and close

work with upstream Linux communities.

In August 2008 several Fedora servers were compromised. Upon investigation

it was found that one of the compromised servers was used for signing Fedora update

packages. The Fedora Project stated that the attacker(s) did not get the package signing

key which could be used to introduce malicious software onto Fedora users' systems

through the update process. Project administrators performed checks on the software

and did not find anything to suggest that a Trojan horse had been introduced into the

software. As a precaution the Project converted to new package signing keys. Fedora

published the full details on 30 March 2009. The Fedora Project is not a separate legal

entity or organization; Red Hat retains liability for its actions. The Fedora Project

Board is responsible for the direction of the Fedora Project and comprises four Red

Hat appointed members and five community-elected members. Additionally, Red Hat

appoints a chairman who has veto power over any board decision. Within Red Hat, this

chairman holds the position of "Fedora Project Leader" The project facilitates online

communication amongst its developers and community members through public

mailing lists and wiki pages. It also coordinates an event known as the Fedora Users

and Developers Conference (FUDCon). FUDcon is a free software event held in

various regions around the world, usually annually per region.

BRIEF OVERVIEW