Red Hat Stories

"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

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

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

"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

"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

"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

"... 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

"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

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

"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

"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

"...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 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

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

"[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