Friday Five — February 1, 2019

It's hard to break down what makes Red Hat Summit the premier open source technology event but we're going to give it a shot. Let's start by looking at Red Hat Summit 2018.

Hybrid cloud is a new reality for IT. While the benefits of this model are many, Red Hat's Mike Kelly and Matt Hicks share in this Open Outlook post why they believe organizations should embrace hybrid cloud: Because it can give them more choice.

When Oracle stopped offering free public updates to Oracle JDK in January, Red Hat worked to ensure a smooth transition from Oracle JDK to Red Hat's distribution. Find out more in this SD Times article.

Adam Bien is a well known expert in Java development and he's recorded a Red Hat video series on "Cloud-native Java app dev." Check it out!

Now that Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Beta is out in the wild, Denise Dumas wanted to describe the process that got us here.