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Red Hat Gets New CEO

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the moving-on-up dept.

xjamie writes "Red Hat has more changes under their hat. CNet is running a story saying Matthew Szulik will replace Bob Young as Red Hat's CEO." So we went and bothered Bob at the LinuxToday booth. The deal is that he is going to be the Chairman, and focus more on the Open Source aspects of the business, and Matthew is gonna be more concerned with the next quarter's bottom line.

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  1. A balanced move by El+Volio · · Score: 5

    This move really shows balance on RedHat's part, IMO.

    On the one hand, they have a real need to grow their revenues. They're a public company now, and as such are beholden to their shareholders to maximize the company's value. Bringing in a "suit" is, sadly, the only real way to do it.

    On the other hand, keeping Young as chairman shows that they are in fact sticking to their roots, at least for the foreseeable future. He's consistently spoken about the fact that RH is all about Open Source (no flames from the purists, please!), and the moves made ever since the IPO have reinforced that notion.

    All told, RHAT is behaving exactly the way a public open-source company shoul.

    --

    "You can never have too many elephants on your team."

  2. Almost Cried. by jelwell · · Score: 4

    A Little Background on Mathew Szulik.

    So, is he going to play nice? He used to be Red Hat's President.
    Joseph Elwell.