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Interview with Red Hat's New CEO

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on 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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  1. A suggestion for the new CEO... by Oxide · · Score: 0, Troll

    Enough of this Fedora crap..... Bring back Redhat Linux

  2. Redhat versus ubuntu - ubuntu wins. by listen_to_blogs · · Score: -1, Troll

    Ubuntu's dapper and feisty distros are free and have better long term support than redhat's fedora. The keyword here is 'longterm'. listen_to_slashdot

  3. TRUTH by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Linux is gone - that website where you could download the kernel codes and files is gone and there are no businesses using linux. it's over.

  4. Re:A question for the CEO... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Hahahahhhahhaahaha -5 clueless :D

  5. He should be happy with what he has by ClosedSource · · Score: 0, Troll

    "And he believes Red Hat should be doing $5 billion, not $500 million."

    Any company would be glad to be doing $500 million when the core R&D for their product was done for free by AT&T and the core implementation was done for free by unpaid idealists. How much money would they be making if they had to pay for all that work?