Interview with Red Hat's New CEO 129
mjasay writes "Red Hat just got a new CEO, Jim Whitehurst, but based on a recent CNET interview with him, he's cut from the same cloth as Matthew Szulik, Red Hat's former CEO. He won't buy an iPod because it won't play Ogg Vorbis files. He refused other CEO roles because he 'must have a mission.' He suggests that taking proprietary shortcuts is a fundamentally wrong way to build a software business. And he believes Red Hat should be doing $5 billion, not $500 million. It's a question of operational excellence and on focusing on its core businesses, according to Whitehurst."
Re:what player plays ogg files? (Score:2, Informative)
http://www.cowonglobal.com/product_wide/product_D2_spec.php [cowonglobal.com]
ogg on ipod indeed possible! (Score:4, Informative)
Re:ogg on ipod indeed possible! (Score:4, Informative)
Re:ogg on ipod indeed possible! (Score:2, Informative)
Re:A question for the CEO... (Score:3, Informative)
Re:A question for the CEO... (Score:5, Informative)
Why would he do that? RPM has many more features, more of an industry standard, etc and yum has just as many features as apt including some apt doesn't have. There is a yum is faster and uses cache just like apt and even has plugins like fast mirror. A yum update takes me 3 seconds across several different repositories. like adobe, livna, updates and kernel mods so the speed is not a problem either like 90% of other distro users still believe.
I really hope that people get with the new decade and see RPM's are just fine since 10 years ago when you tried installing gimp.suse.rpm on a redhat box.
Re:what player plays ogg files? (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Jboss is insanely over priced. (Score:2, Informative)
I looked into buying the RH supported version of JBoss recently. The LOWEST priced supported version is $2000 per year! I'm not exactly sure what market RH is going for here, maybe the Fortune 500 and large institutions, but it sure as hell isn't me.
I'll stick with the unsupported free version, thanks. I just can't see getting $2000/year value for just some extra support I'll likely never use anyway.
And that pretty much sums up the dilemna of open source.
$2000 per year for some kind of basic
support for an application server is *cheap*.
Especially when you take into account that
the open source software (JBoss in this case)
has little or no revenue from software sales, and thus
the support revenue has to cover both
the development cost and the cost of support.
Red Hat is a company, which has paid employees.
Red Hat is not somebody doing something in their
spare time just for the fun of it.
Yes, they have to charge you, to something
like the tune of $400 per hour. That, of course,
is very disgusting, and much too expensive, for somebody who is
doing something in their spare time just for the fun of it.
Thomas
Re:A question for the CEO... (Score:5, Informative)
You have it exactly backwards. GNOME's user interface has become more and more like Mac OS X in several important ways, like the file chooser dialog, spatial file manager, program menu at the top of the screen, etc. etc. while KDE emulates Windows in just about every way (except it adds a bunch of features Windows doesn't have).
And where on earth did you get the mistaken idea that KDE does not support Windows-style cut and paste? It always has.
No, the real reason GNOME is dominant in business-oriented distributions is GTK's more liberal licensing: LGPL instead of Qt's GPL/commercial dual licensing. That means you can make a GTK/GNOME-based commercial, closed-source product without having to buy a license from the GUI toolkit's maker. With Qt and hence with KDE, that is not possible.