IBM, Microsoft, and Red Hat CEOs Shared a Keynote at 15th Annual Red Hat Summit (crn.com) 12
An anonymous reader quote CRN:
IBM chief executive Ginni Rometty and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella shared the keynote-session stage with Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst at the 15th-year installment of the open-source technology event. Rometty talked up IBM's pending $34 billion acquisition of Red Hat and their future relationship. Nadella was there to help herald Azure Red Hat OpenShift, the new enterprise-grade Kubernetes platform that allows developers to run container-based applications on-premises and across Azure, Microsoft's public cloud. Microsoft will jointly manage the platform with Red Hat.
"The CEOs of (two of the) largest technology companies in the world on stage in the same keynote, and it's a Red Hat keynote," Whitehurst said. "Who would have expected that? Hopefully it says something about open source and our role, but it also certainly says something about those companies and their desire to serve customers and their desire to embrace open source."
During the presentation Red Hat's CEO told Microsoft's CEO, "To be blunt, five years ago we had, I guess to be polite, it would be called an adversarial relationship."
Earlier in the presentation, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella had said, "Everything has a time," adding later that the Red Hat/Microsoft partnership "is driven by what I believe is fundamentally what our customers expect of us. They expect us to...really interoperate, be committed to open source."
"The CEOs of (two of the) largest technology companies in the world on stage in the same keynote, and it's a Red Hat keynote," Whitehurst said. "Who would have expected that? Hopefully it says something about open source and our role, but it also certainly says something about those companies and their desire to serve customers and their desire to embrace open source."
During the presentation Red Hat's CEO told Microsoft's CEO, "To be blunt, five years ago we had, I guess to be polite, it would be called an adversarial relationship."
Earlier in the presentation, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella had said, "Everything has a time," adding later that the Red Hat/Microsoft partnership "is driven by what I believe is fundamentally what our customers expect of us. They expect us to...really interoperate, be committed to open source."
Was Whitehurst wearing... (Score:1)
...a red fedora in the shadows? Because that would be creepy.
Re: (Score:2)
Now you understand (Score:1, Insightful)
This is why...
* Linux has had the inscrutable, baroque, enterprisey systemd foisted upon it.
* Linus got reprimanded.
* The explicit enshrining of meritocracy got replaced with an SJW CoC.
It's not your project anymore.
Re:Now you understand (Score:4, Interesting)
You claim the Linux code of conduct attacks the meritocracy? How naive, it's the opposite. The flaming dickhead toxic abusers, with a few notable excepts, are the ones who bullied and drove away talented contributors as a smokescreen to deflect from their own merit issues. Linux development now moves faster than ever, since Linus's mea culpa and introduction of a proper standard for collegial conduct.
Red hat for its part has always looked the other way when its unsocialized attack dogs go after respected community members. Notice, they never attack other Redhatters, that would be a firing offense. That's Redhat culture for you.
Everything but software freedom, that is. (Score:2)
Everything but software freedom—the freedom to run, inspect, modify, and share software. When one runs a free software system atop non-free software (such as running what could be a free software OS atop a proprietary VM system such as Microsoft's Azure), one gives up the software freedom the OS granted them and all sorts of practical advantages on top of that (privacy, security one can vet, access to the sys
Red Hat always was the Microsoft of Linux (Score:2)
Red Hat always was the Microsoft of Linux, with its creepy management, hostile takeovers of open source projects and, let's say it, shitty software (rpmbuild anybody???) How sweet that they've found each other.