RED HAT

Paul TookPaul TookVictorian Branch Mannager, Red Hat

Vit l St ti itiVital Statisitics

Headquarters in RaleigFounded in 1993Founded in 19933000+ employees, in 6countriescountriesCash and investmentsFY11 revenues: $800+FY11 revenues: $800IPO, 1999 (NYSE: RH

gh, NC

66 worldwide offices in 30

: $1.3 billion+ million +30% growth million 30% growthHT)

Raison d’êtreTo be the catalyst in communiticontributors and partners creacontributors, and partners creaopen source way.

ies of customers, ating better technology theating better technology the

S thi t bSomething to remembe

First they ignore youFirst they ignore youThen they laugh at youThen they fight youThen they fight youAnd then you win

er

u

- Mohatma Gandhi

Why Open Sourcee?

The Foundations of Gene ou dat o s o Ge(GPL)

Nobody should be restrictedThere are four freedoms thaThere are four freedoms tha

the freedom to use the softw

the freedom to change the s

the freedom to share the sofneighbors, and

the freedom to share the cha

neral Public License e a ub c ce se

d by the software they use. at every user should have:at every user should have:

ware for any purpose,

software to suit your needs,

ftware with your friends and

anges you make.

G l P bli LiGeneral Public License

Red Hat release all distribu(sometimes with much effo(sometimes with much effo

And now, so do Squiz!

Red Hat Squiz Red Hat Squiz

(GPL)(GPL)

uted software under GPLort)ort)

Wh t i O S SWhat is Open Source S

A type of software decollaborative develocollaborative develoaccessibility of code

d l thi i imodels; this is in consoftware which is onor “closed” format

ft ?oftware?

efined by its pment modelpment model,

e and distribution t t ith i tntrast with proprietary

nly available in a binary

C ll b ti I tiCollaborative Innovatio

A framework built on shA framework built on shinventions with the worfrom developers custofrom developers, custooutside of the corporat

on

haring ideas andharing ideas and rld and getting new ideas omers and leadersomers, and leaders e structure.

C ll b ti I tiC ll b ti I tiCollaborative InnovatioCollaborative Innovatio

Open SourceAccess to Code(Fedora, Issue: Software Patents)

Open ContentAccess to Knowledge(Creative Commons Wikipedia)(Creative Commons, Wikipedia)

Open StandardsAccess to Data(ODF, Royalty Free Standards)

Access to knowledge Anytime, An

t R d H tonon at Red Hat

nywhere, Anyhow

Wh OSS? DWhy use OSS? Democr

Red Hat Patent Promise

Open Invention Network

P S l i FiPatent Settlement in Fires

Brief in Bilski CaseBrief in Bilski Case

IP Symposiums in North Cy pIndia; and more to come

www.opensource.com

ti i C t tratising Content

t Cstar Case

Carolina, United States; Delhi,

CATALYST IN COMMUNICATALYST IN COMMUNIITIESITIES

OPEN SOURCE STACK

PROPRIETARY

OPEN SOURCE STACK

IBM/Oracle Portal

PROPRIETARY

IBM Websphere, .NET

Oracle DB, DB2

Veritas Storage Suite

UNIX, Windows

Containers, VMWare Virtualisation

OPEN SOURCE

MySource Matrix

OPEN SOURCE

Apache & PHP

PostgreSQL

Global File System/Red Hat Cluster Suite

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualisation

Red Hat Enterprise Linux

IN PRACTICEIN PRACTICE

GFS

Are we succeedinng?

SHARED CUSTOMERSSHARED CUSTOMERS