Red Hat is an open source company and I think it really shows in two important ways.
The first way that Red Hat is an open source software company is probably the one you'd expect: everything is open source! All of Red Hat's products are open source. When Red Hat acquires companies, one of the first things they do is work on open sourcing the software. I now get to help with that process.
When Red Hat develops software, they do so in open source. Red Hat, like many open software organizations, distinguishes between upstream and downstream. Upstream is the community project and downstream is the product delivered to customers. Both are open source but a huge effort is made to make sure all new code is in the upstream.
For example, Fedora is an upstream project for Red Hat Enterprise Linux. OpenStack is an upstream project for RDO. Did you know that Red Hat is the second biggest contributor to Docker and Kubernetes? Both are upstream projects for products offered to Red Hat customers. When Red Hat acquires a company, they open source the source code. Right now I'm working with two different teams in Red Hat to see how we can best help them open source their products and create communities around them. They are facing all the same questions about open sourcing that any product would. What license should they use? How do they replace non open source dependencies? Should they open all the existing known bug reports? What if they contain proprietary customer data? Lots of fun questions.
The second way that Red Hat is an open source software company is maybe less obvious but much more core to Red Hatters. Red Hat's culture firmly embraces many open source software principles. Anyone can propose an idea, proposals are opened for comment by anyone in the company and information is not constrained to small teams.
I had my very first taste of this my second day on the job. Red Hat's People team was proposing a change to the vacation benefit for US employees. To me the proposal sounded wonderful - but it did come with some modifications to the existing plan that might impact people. The People team shared a very detailed plan, gave everyone a chance to weigh in, and responded to everyone's concerns.
This way of sharing, communicating, and collaborating is key to Red Hat's culture and something of which Red Hat associates are proud. What I find unique to Red Hat is how clear it is to everyone what is an internal open process and what's externally open. All upstream software and conversations about it are open, on open mailing lists and IRC channels. All conversations about things like employee benefits are also "open," but on an internal mailing list. The balance is natural and very clear.
Any Red Hatter you talk to is willing to describe the culture and what it means to them every day. Ask the next one you meet! Many of us are at DevConf this week and FOSDEM in a couple of weeks.
Jim Whitehurst, Red Hat's CEO, published a book about the Red Hat culture called The Open Organization, if you want to read more about it.
저자 소개
채널별 검색
오토메이션
기술, 팀, 환경을 포괄하는 자동화 플랫폼에 대한 최신 정보
인공지능
고객이 어디서나 AI 워크로드를 실행할 수 있도록 지원하는 플랫폼 업데이트
클라우드 서비스
관리형 클라우드 서비스 포트폴리오에 대해 더 보기
보안
환경과 기술 전반에 걸쳐 리스크를 감소하는 방법에 대한 최신 정보
엣지 컴퓨팅
엣지에서의 운영을 단순화하는 플랫폼 업데이트
인프라
세계적으로 인정받은 기업용 Linux 플랫폼에 대한 최신 정보
애플리케이션
복잡한 애플리케이션에 대한 솔루션 더 보기
오리지널 쇼
엔터프라이즈 기술 분야의 제작자와 리더가 전하는 흥미로운 스토리
제품
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux
- Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise
- Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform
- 클라우드 서비스
- 모든 제품 보기
툴
체험, 구매 & 영업
커뮤니케이션
Red Hat 소개
Red Hat은 Linux, 클라우드, 컨테이너, 쿠버네티스 등을 포함한 글로벌 엔터프라이즈 오픈소스 솔루션 공급업체입니다. Red Hat은 코어 데이터센터에서 네트워크 엣지에 이르기까지 다양한 플랫폼과 환경에서 기업의 업무 편의성을 높여 주는 강화된 기능의 솔루션을 제공합니다.