Developing a software giant on the ideals of open-source
IF MANAGING developers is, as the saying goes, like herding cats, what can it be like running the world’s largest open-source company, Red Hat?
Chief executive Jim Whitehurst, former chief operations officer of Delta Airlines, has taken on the role of principal herder with a gusto that has earned him much respect within the open-source community.
Open-source development is software development by a community – typically a global, highly opinionated community – that freely works on application code. A key condition is that applications are freely available to anyone.
Such an approach has led most famously to Linux, the hugely popular operating system that can be obtained in many different “flavours” – different versions offered by different development groups and companies. Red Hat’s is easily the best known, and the company has a business model based on offering support and services around its version of Linux.
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