Paul Cormier, president of Product and Technologies for Red Hat, Inc., told theCUBE during Red Hat Summit 2015 that everything the company creates goes back to the open-source community. A newly acquired company may present the one exception.

“If we acquire a company that doesn’t have open-source technology, it may take us 60 to 90 days to get through the process, but our promise is to [send everything to open source],” Cormier said.

 He also discussed how the company supports three Hypervisors: VMware, Microsoft, and Red Hat. “That’s an economic decision,” he said. “But in the case of OpenStack, with its close ties to Linux, our support is mostly a technical decision.”

Containers-as-a-Service

TheCUBE cohosts Dave Vellante and Stu Miniman dug deep into OpenStack and containers during their interview with Cormier, who sees room for development in Containers-as-a-Service.

 “People think containers are magic and run in air,” Cormier said. “It is an operating system. What’s in a container is OS. Containers do not quite have fully fledged production in a big way yet, and people aren’t thinking about production-level issues. If I deploy 100,000 containers and the Shellshock bug comes out, what happens? That’s what we plan to address.”

Source: http://siliconangle.com