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    Red Hat CEO on patents, open-source virtualization 23/06/2008 13:41:12

    Jim Whitehurst talks about his first six months and the future of Red Hat.
    A half-year after becoming president and CEO of Linux vendor Red Hat, Jim Whitehurst was in Boston last week for the annual Red Hat Summit. The former COO of Delta Air Lines sat down with Network World's Jon Brodkin to discuss open source, a new patent settlement, and Red Hat's moves in virtualization.
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    Three Minutes with Red Hat's Chief 21/02/2008 09:29:46

    New CEO brings passion and an eclectic background to help him chart a new course for the Linux vendor.
    When Matthew Szulik left Red Hat abruptly for family health reasons in December, many people were scratching their heads over the company's new choice of CEO - a young executive from Delta Airlines, Jim Whitehurst. But Whitehurst's chief operating officer title at Delta and position outside of the technology industry are misleading; a peek into his past reveals a computer science degree and a passion for open-source technology, not to mention a smooth operator who helped bring a struggling airline out of bankruptcy.
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    New Red Hat CEO on JBoss, open source, the future 14/02/2008 09:49:45

    At the fifth annual JBoss user conference, James Whitehurst shares some of his vision and explains what it's like to switch from an airline to the open-source industry.
    Since being acquired by Linux vendor Red Hat in mid-2006, open-source middleware vendor JBoss has been a company in transition. It was well-known for its open-source middleware line that could be used by large businesses to better tie together their divergent applications.
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    KDE king Seigo talks life, free software and reinventing the desktop 01/02/2008 11:42:48

    Aaron J Seigo worries about client side software, thinks Plasma will challenge Flash, and Apple doesn't understand the open source development model.
    With the recent release of version 4.0, the KDE open source project has garnered a lot of international attention. One of KDE's lead developers, and best known personality, Aaron J Seigo is in Australia to speak at this year's Linux.conf.au on his vision for better desktop computing. Computerworld spoke with Seigo, a native of Calgary, Canada, about his view of the world and how a little bit of innovation will permanently change how people interact with software.
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    SourceForge exec on the open source breeding ground 23/11/2007 08:04:35

    With more staff, improvements to its website, new infrastructure and an increased enterprise take-up of open source, it’s full steam ahead.
    We hear from SourceForge and SourceForge.net Marketplace Vice President Mike Rudolph about the world's largest Open Source software development web site, which, as of today, claims 162,855 registered projects and 1,732,552 registered users.
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    Red Hat exec: Open Source is mature, disruptive and innovative 24/10/2007 08:54:53

    Craig Nielsen was one of eight speakers at the WA open source symposium earlier this month. He talks about where the industry stands and where it is rapidly heading.
    Open source is disruptive, it develops rapidly, is adopted quickly, and it efficiently meets market needs while enabling new market capabilities. These were some of the statements made at an open source symposium held in Western Australia (WA) earlier this month.
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    Drupal: from a drop in the ocean to a big fish in the CMS world 15/10/2007 09:59:33

    Drupal’s founder, Dries Buytaert tells all about the Drupal project: its history, where it is today and where it is going.
    Drupal started out as a college experiment.
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