Red Hat Canada Limited (f.k.a Cygnus Solutions Canada Limited)

Red Hat Canada Limited, formerly Cygnus Solutions Canada Limited, is the Canadian arm of Red Hat, a provider of open source enterprise technology. Its flagship product is Red Hat Enterprise Linux, an operating system positioned as a foundational open source enterprise platform. Around it sits a broader portfolio of hybrid cloud platforms and open source technologies spanning artificial intelligence, virtualization, edge computing, application development and automation, designed to run consistently across datacentres, clouds and edge deployments.

The company operates at considerable scale: more than 19,000 employees, known internally as Red Hatters, work from over 100 offices in more than 40 countries. Its markets cover enterprise technology, cloud computing, IT infrastructure and software development.

Red Hat's stated working principles are drawn from the open source movement. The company commits to open source principles, collaborates with a community of contributors, customers and partners, and fosters ecosystems in which ideas are shared, debated and improved by anyone who wants to participate. It argues that better technology happens when built together, and advocates the freedom to innovate without being locked into proprietary systems.