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Red Hat's CEO said the commerce models enabled by the Linux platform, namely cheap modernism, quick scale out and mass collaboration, is unswervingly responsible for the achievement of top Web 2.0 Company including Google, Facebook and AmazonGoogle and Facebook be obliged their success largely to Linux -- not the knowledge per se, but to the cheap modernism and mass collaboration it enables, Red Hat's CEO say.Yes, free, as in lack of restrictions, but also free as in free beer, said Jim Whitehurst, CEO of crimson Hat.Had it not been designed for the any cost software, open licensing and accumulation collaboration, all trade models enabled by Linux and open source, not anything of the top Web 2.0 companies -- including the cloud multitude -- would have be able to lift off, scale and scuttle their businesses.Backrub.Stanford.edu, a little experimentation begun in the mid 90s that be converted into Google, was written in Java and Python and on Linux. More prominently, the tec hnical innovation that comes at such a low pricetag is what changed the amusement forever, the crimson Hat CEO said."Google would not exist today if it be not for Linux. Initially, the business representation of throwing it out and making it gratis and scalable.. those business models simply work if you can start them and get modernization going cheaply. If you can't innovate cheaply, the amount of innovation stalls," Whitehurst said at LinuxCon, which is organism held this week in Vancouver.Could Facebook have build and scaled its infrastructure devoid of Linux and open source? Whitehurst said no."The power of innovation that Linux [enables] from a business perspective is characteristic about what open source has done for Web 2.0," he well-known. "Web 2.0 would not exist in its existing form if it weren't for the business representation of Linux."Linux Foundation Exec VP Jim Zemlin noted during his opening important Wednesday that Red Hat is predictable to break $1 billion in revenues this year.Whitehurt said he takes exemption to analysts who describe Linux as merely a solid alternative to traditional platform when it has become the default raised area for next generation application growth and platform computing.Wall Street knows: Red Hat's stock have returned a 400 percent increase in price over the past 10 years while Microsoft's has compressed and dipped some, he supplementary.Red Hat is a huge beneficiary on or after open source but Wall Street trading platform, Facebook, Google and Cloud Company are even bigger beneficiaries, he said, note that 75 percent of stock exchanges now run Linux."Now we have large company doing the innovation Google, Amazon and facebook are defining the next age group roadmap and where the next modernism is coming. It's not Sun and Microsoft, but what's occurrence in open source," Whitehurst added.Whitehurst said open source project are also more powerful in defining next age band technologies than traditional software companies, citing the success of Hadoop and Cassandra in the big data association."Innovation is happening in unbolt source first and then established company are working to implement them," he added."Linux is enable business models that have nothing to do with knowledge [because]customers can do it cheaply, weighing machine it and build business based on it," he added.