All Open Source and Red Hat Videos

Two Thumbs Up for Red Hat Stories

Grab some popcorn, turn down the lights and gather around your computer screen as we announce the premiere of Red Hat Stories. A collection of 16 short videos, Red Hat Stories feature company leaders from around the world discussing who we are, what we do and how we do it.

The Open Source Triple Play

What is the Triple Play? Improving your company's total cost of ownership, reinvesting the savings to improve collaboration, and driving user innovation. Watch Michael Tiemann, Red Hat VP of Open Source Affairs, as he explains how the Triple Play means going beyond technical collaboration and fundamentally changing the way people think. Rather than simply dictating a solution, give customers the tools to innovate.

Value Shows: How the JBoss subscription helps customers make the most of their IT budget.

In this video, Jon Atkins, Senior Services Marketing Manager, explains how the JBoss subscription helps customers make the most of their IT budget.

Intellectual Property Explained

Mark Webbink takes some time out of his busy day to explain the basics of intellectual property rights in the software industry. He compares and contrasts four types of intellectual property: copyrights, trademarks, patents, and trade secrets.

Open Source software licensing explained

In this video, Mark Webbink delivers a broad overview of the software licenses around open source, in layman's terms.

Why are partners critical to Red Hat's Strategy

Listen as Werner Knoblich, Vice President, EMEA Sales, explains how Red Hat collaborates with partners to provide value to customers.

What is Red Hat's role in the open source community

The open source community consists of a large number of communities. Rik Van Riel, Senior Software Engineer, gives an overview of Red Hat's role in the open source community, explaining the communities that Red Hat is most involved with.

Business Process Friction

In this video, Pierre Fricke, Product Management Director, explains how SOA improves business process friction.

The Value of Red Hat

Why is Red Hat the open source leader? It begins with collaboration that never ends.

Red Hat Films

The Seeds of Open Source

Sometimes open source ideals make for the strangest-and most wonderful-bedfellows. Dr. Vandana Shiva-physicist, scientist, environmentalist, and activist explains how her work saving seeds and protecting traditional knowledge in the farming industry parallels the openness, transparency, collaboration and freedom of open source ideology.

More Than a Customer

You are more than a customer. You are more than a partner. You are part of a community.

We are Here

You are here, but not just here. If the mind is open then creativity will blossom. Open source is a way of life. Inventiveness and innovation are rising. We are here.

Birdsong

To celebrate the beginning of the end of DRM, we've created a prototype agit-prop cartoon, a parable with a bird. It is being released as a prototype under a Creative Commons Share Alike license with an open invitation to use and modify as you wish.

Truth Happens

Despite ignorance, ridicule, and opposition, truth happens. Open source continues to revolutionize the industry. Everyday, someone around the world chooses a proprietary solution restricted by patents, copyrights, and trademarks. At the same time, someone else around the world learns of open source and adopts its innovative, compelling technology.

Choice

Imagine a world where technology is allowed to connect naturally and simple elements create complex systems. Where choice is multiplied and the system finds the best way. Watch this video and see why open source allows choice, choice equals freedom, and freedom equals power.

Inevitable

After years of fierce competition, Microsoft and Sun have decided to settle lawsuits and set aside their differences. Why? The answer won't surprise those who know Linux and open source. Today the customer is in charge. See what happened, how history and the open source movement has helped bring us to where we are today, and why open source is inevitable because it allows the customer to take control.

How Red Hat got its name

Ever wondered how Red Hat got it's name? You're about to find out... Maybe. Listen as Bob Young, co-founder of Red Hat, tells three stories about how Red Hat got its name. Which one is true? Decide for yourself.