CEO of Red Hat Jim Whitehurst gives the opening keynote at the 2012 Red Hat Summit and JBoss World.
Whitehurst welcomed the crowd warmly, noting that the community of contributors, users, partners, and technologists are the backbone behind Red Hat and Linux and open source success.
He continued on to talk about the economy and information evolutions of today, comparing them to the revolutions in industries and ages past--agriculture, industrialization, banking.
Whitehurst emphasized the transition from physical to informational assets for these institutions--and compared this to the changes in IT infrastructure and the datacenter.
As our need for data storage and manipulation grows, as the tools with which to handle this data get more and more complex. Improving our technology foundations and eliminating transaction costs means we can do more, and leaves admins and developers free to innovate instead of manage.
Eliminating transaction costs has also allowed for a boom in development--rapid iteration without the need for external investment (or approval). You no longer have to wait to debut the next big idea--it's as simple as logging into the cloud or offering your new app in the app store.
The role that standards and standards-sharing companies will play in this new information economy is critical. Open source is now mainstream, and Red Hat--a now billion-dollar company in this space--is positioned to connect communities and drive innovation for the next generation of technology.
There is no time to rest. The paradigms shift beneath our feet and we're on to the next adventure. Big data, cloud, and virtualization bring moreradical change, and the beyond-slow pace of proprietary competitors leaves Linux and open source standardization at the forefront of technology today. And Whitehurst, a self-confessed geek among other geeks at Red Hat, finds that exciting.
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