• The cloud’s impact on the future of open source

    March 11th, 2014 by Casey Bisson

    The meteoric rise of cloud computing is in no small part due to the massive code base of open-source software that it is built on. From the Linux operating system to the hypervisors and the specialist data tools like Hadoop, the cloud is powered by free code and the passionate community that builds and maintains it. In this fireside chat we talk to Red Hat, the first company with an open-source solution that has made $1 billion in revenue, about what the real impacts on the enterprise will be and what the IT ecosystem will look like in a world that gives away software for free.