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Red Hat Hires CentOS Developers

Posted by timothy on from the first-national-brain-trust-of-raleigh dept.

rjmarvin writes "Karanbir Singh and a handful of other CentOS developers are now full-time Red Hat employees, working in-house on the CentOS distribution with more transparent processes and methods. None of the CentOS developers will be working on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. The CentOS project would become another distribution and community cared for by Red Hat, like Fedora, and Red Hat CTO Brian Stevens says the company is planning its future around OpenStack, not just Linux."

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  1. Genious. Absolute genious. by satan666 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Let me take a second to applaud Red Hat for doing this.
    This is why they own the Enterprise Linux market.

    Their thinking, in a nutshell, is this:
    Give the software (CentOS) to small companies.
    Get kids right out of college using it to build their home servers.
    Get everyone comfortable with CentOS/RHEL.
    When it is time to buy, they will buy RH. Simple.

    Here in NYC, Linux jobs are 99.99% RH/CentOS.
    Because CentOS is free, anyone can download it and test
    it. No disabled features, nothing. You want a job in Wall St?
    Download CentOS, sit down and learn the thing and then
    you WILL get a job! I guarantee it!

    Microsoft, Oracle, Apple take note: This is how you own
    a market. Not by squeezing every penny out of your
    customers.

    That's why Apple will never break into the Enterprise
    market. This is why Microsoft has lost the Enterprise
    market and this is how Oracle will fuck off and die soon
    (hopefully).

    Personally, I was a Slackware guy, for my home machines,
    but CentOS has won me over. Now, it is the only thing I use.

    One more thing: I work in Wall St. and I use RH/CentOS
    every single day.

    Red Hat, you guys rule. I salute you! Rock on!