Interview with Red Hat's New CEO

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Friday January 4, 2008 @10:30AM from the impossible-growth-charts-impress-investors dept.

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."

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it still comes down to software. by Ralph+Spoilsport · 2008-01-04 11:01 · Score: 3, Interesting

The software on Linux is good, but not as good as the stuff you pay for. What he should do is cozy up to Adobe and get them to port the Creative Suite over to Linux, and then sell Adobe CS(4 or 5 or whatever) on a dedicated box running RedHat Linux.
They'd all make a fortune.
And it would give Linux the software it so desperately needs to survive.
RS

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