On: What makes us Red Hat

[mintplant]

Automattic is the WordPress shop. They develop WordPress and run WordPress.com. There aren't any recent revenue numbers available, but indirectly powering ~25% of the internet is nothing to sneeze at.

[grkvlt → mintplant]

That's interesting; they really don't have the brand recognition they deserve then. I would consider myself as reasonably well-informed as the next HN reader, and I certainly hadn't heard of them. Of course I don't work with WordPress - but i have heard of WordPress...

[fnj → mintplant]

How much of the internet's destructive hacking do they "power"?

[mintplant → fnj]

Quite a bit, I imagine, but unfortunately security does not necessarily correlate to popularity.

[collinmanderson → mintplant]

They now do automatic security updates, so the situation should improve.