We had the opportunity to talk to Jim Whitehurst, CEO of Red Hat, about the acquisition, how Gluster's product works, and what it means to be steering a company into the $1 billion revenue mark.
Linux is basically the first example of user-driven innovation creating something of this size and magnitude. When you think about 10 million lines of code, there's going to be many cases where users drive innovation. I think we're entering an era where the big info companies are the machine pool vendors of the last age.
In the info age, the Intels, Googles, Amazons, for the first time, because of open source, are seeing significantly more innovation happening from users.
Red Hat Is On Track To Become A $1 Billion Company - Business Insider
Linux is basically the first example of user-driven innovation creating something of this size and magnitude. When you think about 10 million lines of code, there's going to be many cases where users drive innovation. I think we're entering an era where the big info companies are the machine pool vendors of the last age.
In the info age, the Intels, Googles, Amazons, for the first time, because of open source, are seeing significantly more innovation happening from users.
Red Hat Is On Track To Become A $1 Billion Company - Business Insider
