building confidence into products starts with upstream citizenship
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Building Confidence into Products Starts with Upstream Citizenship
Senior Director Open Source and Standards, Red Hat
Presented to the Paris Open Source Summit 2016Community Track: Open Source Value Chain Panel
Deborah Bryant
Red Hat Value Chain in a Nutshell
● Red Hat’s process, depth and breadth of participation in across the full chain reduces risks and anxieties normally associated with traditional supply chains.
● Red Hat’s “upstream first” philosophy and practice is key to the health of its own commercial products.
● As new technologies emerge attracting industry stakeholders with limited experience in open source citizenry, veterans must must acculturate new actors to join as thoughtful participants in that open source ecosystem.
OPEN SOURCE COMPANY 2BILLION DOLLAR
90%MORE THAN
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PRODUCTS & SOLUTIONS. *
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* Red Hat client data, 2015
85OFFICES
35COUNTRIES
500S&P
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~9,300EMPLOYEES
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Red Hat works in the “upstream”; in the open and as member of the community, including sharing the benefits of potential productization
Value Proposition: ● Integration● Security● Stability
(release cadence)
● IP Assurance
Enterprise Customer offerings:Product installation, Systems Integration, Maintenance, Training
Open Source Project Value Added Red Hat Product
Community Red Hat Engineering Customer
1M+projects*
* www.blackducksoftware.com/oss-logistics/choose
Corporate contributions to OpenStack
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* Includes only the top 10.
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RED HAT PROCESS
We participate in and create community-powered upstream projects.
We integrate upstream projects, fosteringopen community platforms.
We enable software and hardware partners, customers, and academia to participate at every
stage of development.
We commercialize these platforms together with a rich ecosystem of servicesand certifications.
PARTICIPATE
INTEGRATE
STABILIZE
1M+PROJECTS (upstream
projects)
(community platforms)
(supported products
platforms, solutions)
Productization: Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
As of June 2014, more than 97% of
the world's 500 fastest supercomputers
run some variant of Linux, including
all of the 44 fastest.
Source: Top500 Project, June 2014 Report (top500.org)
STABILITY to efficiently meet current challenges of datacenter virtualization and cloud
FLEXIBILITY to quickly adapt to demands for business agility
CERTAINTYof mission-critical reliability and military-classsecurity*
RED HATENTERPRISELINUX
Titan at Oak RidgeNational Laboratory
Community Opportunity and Challenge: Impact of Emerging Technology
New participants from legacy technology industry are recognizing the value of open source but do not yet understand how to participate in their upstream.
Emerging Technologies are often accompanied by unsettled or competing standards, making early choices for integration more challenging.
A far field away….
PARTICIPATE
INTEGRATE
STABILIZE
(upstream projects)
(community platforms)
(supported products
platforms, solutions)
In Summary
● If you don’t leave the kitchen while the meal is being prepared, you’ll know exactly what went into the stew.
● As new and inexperienced cooks wander into the kitchen, make yourself useful and teach them how to avoid grease fires. The meal you save may be your own.
Supplemental Materials
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
● Assurances for customers purchasing Red Hat subscriptions● Designed to allow customers to use their chosen solutions without
interruption
PROTECTING CUSTOMERS
OPEN SOURCEASSURANCE PROGRAM
● Challenges flaws in systems related to software patents
● Support for patent law reform in Congress● U.S. Supreme Court briefs in Bilski, Global
Tech, and i4i● Spoke out against chilling effects of U.S. SOPA
and PIPA legislation on open source innovation
OPEN SOURCELEADERSHIP
Commitment not to enforce patents with respect to open source software
RED HATPATENT PROMISE