Of the people, by the people, for the people...
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| Yesterday afternoon, Red Hat, Inc. announced that James Whitehurst would be
| taking over for Matthew Szulik as chief executive. This is important open
| source news because Red Hat is by far the largest company practicing open
| source as its primary business. (Disclaimer: I am a Red Hat executive.)
|
| Already the press has characterized Jim as "an airline guy", and I'd like to
| make a point that these other reporters refuse to acknowledge: Jim was an
| open source guy before he was an airline guy.
|
| I met Jim this morning (he doesn't start until January 2008), and I asked him
| point blank: "were you really running Fedora Core 6 when you were first
| contacted about the CEO position?"
|
| Jim shot back with a list of all the different releases he's running at home,
| and started giving me an inventory of all the versions of Red Hat Linux he
| ran before the Fedora project came into existence.
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http://opensource.org/node/238
Yesterday:
Red Hat Shares Jump 10 Percent
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| Shares of Red Hat Inc. jumped 10 percent Friday, one day after the open
| source software distributor announced a rise in third-quarter earnings and
| the appointment of a new chief executive.
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http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/071221/red_hat_shares.html?.v=1
New Red Hat CEO checks open source claims
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| The news that the operations chief from a major US airline, Jim Whitehurst
| from Delta, is taking over at Red Hat from Matthew Szulik is a further sign
| of the growing legitimization of open source and Linux in the eyes of
| corporate, mainstream America. It underscores how the “suits to sandals”
| ratio in the open source and Linux movement sliding further towards the
| suits.
|
| Whitehurst’s blue-chip background at the $16-billion-a-year Delta and the
| fact he’s an executive lured from outside of the IT industry rather than one
| who simply swapped one tech industry management job for another underscores
| the belief in open source as a business.
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http://www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2007/12/21/red_hat_new_ceo/
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