Red Hat Stories

Red Hat® shares ideas, technology, and stories. Watch these videos to learn more about open source, collaboration, and what doing things the Red Hat way is all about.

The Value of Red Hat

"Customers at some point have to step back and say what are my alternatives? And in software especially, there's a great alternative and it's called open source..." - Jim Whitehurst, president and CEO



The Red Hat Way

"This is how we built a profitable business by sharing."

Our Technologies

"The biggest thing we bring to a customer, I think is choice." - Paul Cormier, executive VP and president, Products and Technologies

Virtualization

"The next step is that [virtualization] allows you to abstract at a different level ... it means you really start to get a lot more powerful paradigms to be used by customers." - Brian Stein, director, Software Engineering

Middleware

"You can configure JBoss technology to the needs that you have in an organization. You're not constrained and restricted." - Craig Muzilla, VP, Middleware Business

Management

"One way we like to think about management software is it's kind of like the instrumentation of a car..." - Katrinka McCallum, VP, Management Solutions

Performance

"... the benchmarks are really only a metric to try to show a customer how well an operating system and a solution will work for their environment." - Douglas Shakshober, senior consulting engineer

Services

"As service organization, we can help our customers be successful with building out complete end-to-end solutions around the open source stack and open source methodologies." - Iain Gray, VP, Customer Engagement

The Value of the Subscription

"We believe that the subscription model puts control back into the hands of the customer." - Iain Gray, VP, Customer Engagement

Ecosystem

"As a customer, when you subscribe to Red Hat Enterprise Linux or Red Hat products, the ecosystem comes with that." - Matt Mattox, product management director

Support

"These are the best open source engineers in the industry, ...that's what the customer is paying for; this is brain power..." - Summer Maynard, senior manager, Technical Support

Liberating Innovation

"...innovation is kind of this magic ingredient...it means having access to information and the ability to manipulate, change and modify that information."

Open Standards

"[Open standards are] important from a long-term perspective of humanity recording it's knowledge, and sharing it, and transferring it to the next generation also." - Venky Harihan, corporate affairs director

Software Licensing and Copyleft

"[Copyleft] captures the idea of taking copyright and turning it around; instead of restricting rights, you grant freedoms." - Richard Fontana, open source licensing and patent counsel

Software Patent Challenges

"Software patents end up being a kind of a tax on innovation." - Michael Meurer, author, Patent Failure, Boston University Law School

Promoting open government

"[Open standards are] important from a long-term perspective of humanity recording it's knowledge, and sharing it, and transferring it to the next generation also." - Venky Harihan, corporate affairs director