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CEO of Red Hat Steps Down
bearer_of_bad_news points us to a C|net article which states that Matthew Szulik is stepping down as the president and chief executive of Red Hat. Szulik is citing family health reasons, and he plans to remain chairman of the board. Red Hat has indicated that his replacement will be former Delta Airlines COO James Whitehurst. Quoting the article:
"On a conference call, Szulik said Whitehurst stood 'head and shoulders' above other candidates interviewed in a recruiting process. He was a programmer earlier in his career and runs four versions of Linux at home."
We discussed Szulik's ascension to CEO back in 1999.
It means the board told him if he didn't step down, his family would soon be in very poor health.
The former head of an airline to take over the reigns at ???.... that makes about as much sense as letting the former head of an airline take over the reigns at .
Oh... wait...
but is he Emacs or Vi ?
It's funny reading the old discussion about the CEO's ascension...
"More Alpha support!" "YellowDog is good enough for PPC!" "Alpha users need to band together!"
Heh.
OMG! Wau!
No wait, what?!? You're kidding right? The idea that the new CEO might not be a Linux user, or might not run Red Hat software is so plausible that the confirmation that he is a "Linux user" is seen as noteworthy? What the heck? Would they consider putting someone in that position who was "a Mac user" or "a Windows user" or even "sometimes uses Linux?"
I know very little about Jim, but geez, the idea that it could be any other way makes me shudder to think.
Yes. I shudder when I think. I think it is a venereal disease I got from fsking a penguin.
Back in my day when we chiseled our bits into stone and sent them by mule train from village to village...
It's actually surprisingly hard to weed out the morons
/. moderation seems to do it pretty well. (glances at most recent YRO comments).... oh wait... nevermind.
I got a catholic block.
Hatters? Yes, Yes all of our haberdashers are always very excited about any story mentioning stylish hattery.
Well.. maybe. Or Maybe not. But Definitely not sort of.
He probably can't afford RHES even with his employee discount.
JTF: In your heart, you know we're right.
The next version of Red Hat Linux will ...
- No longer come with any entertaiment software.
- Have nice icons and background that cost extra, and
- Be delayed from original release date because...
- there will be a major restructuring, while
- all the programmers go on strike.
See my sig.
My grandmother used anecdotal evidence all the time, and she lived to be 120 years old.
but is he Emacs or Vi ?
The answer is almost certainly an unequivocal "Yes."
The only thing you need to learn in Emacs is C-h C-h (hold down the control key and tap 'h' twice).
The uber-help menu will take you where you need to go.
When befuddled, M-x doctor (Alt-x, then type 'doctor' in the mini-buffer) will call up Eliza, the built-in doctor.
Can't confirm if this is really Dr. Eliza Spaceman (spuh-chay-man), the parent of Dr. Leo Spaceman on 30 Rock, but it is fun to speculate.
With service like this, how can these pagan infidels denigrate the Esteemed Mother Amongst Computer Software?
Get thee glass eyes, and, like a scurvy politician, seem to see things thou dost not.--King Lear
his replacement will be former Delta Airlines COO James Whitehurst.
Now that means all your cron jobs will run late and RedHat will stop giving out those little packages of peanuts.
That's our life, the big wheel of shit. - The Fat Man, Blue Tango Salvage
"runs four versions of Linux at home"
:P
Oh yeah ? Well I run four versions of Windows and two Macs on top of my Linux!
Seriously, web development is the worst job evar.
-Billco, Fnarg.com