Red Hat's Whitehurst: What Next For Open Source?
Red Hat chief executive Jim Whitehurst is on a high after the company's annual customer conference. The event, launched RHEL 5.4, it also took JBoss middleware to the cloud, and included new cloud projects.
At the show, he spoke to eWEEK Europe's Miya Knights at the show, and emphasised the open source vendor's plans for growth and mainstream domination.
Jim Whitehurst said that Red Hat's next phase of growth lay not so much in winning open source fans over to its technology, but in winning business hearts and minds to the idea that open source is truly enterprise-ready.
"Red Hat has historically done extremely well not just with 'techies,' but with companies that are very sophisticated technologically, in terms of running stock exchanges, trading platforms and other mission-critical applications for instance," he told eWEEK Europe.
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