A ranar 15 ga Nuwamba, 1999, Red Hat ya sayi Cygnus Solutions. Cygnus ya ba da tallafin kasuwanci don software kyauta kuma ya shirya masu kula da kayayyakin software na GNU kamar GNU Debugger da GNU Binutils. Daya daga cikin wadanda suka kafa Cygnus, Michael Tiemann, ya zama babban jami'in fasaha na Red Hat kuma a shekara ta 2008 mataimakin shugaban harkokin bude-source. Daga baya Red Hat ya sayi WireSpeed, C2Net da kuma Hell's Kitchen Systems. A watan Fabrairun 2000, InfoWorld ya ba Red Hat lambar yabo ta huɗu a jere ta "Samfurin Tsarin Gudanarwa na Shekara" don Red Hat Linux 6.1.
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