Red Hat and Ericsson sign open source deal

#RedHat is well known as probably the most successful company built entirely on open-source software. Building a business on top of open source is a hard thing, especially so back in the early days of open source when no one had any real idea how the economics of a product that was free would translate into commercial success. But succeed it did, and Red Hat has created a huge business built entirely on offering services on top of open-source products.

The company's initial success was, of course, built around the corresponding wide uptake of the #Linux operating system. Linux services was what Red Hat built its base upon. But time, as they say, never stands still, and Red Hat has deftly jumped on board a huge number of other open-source initiatives to try and emulate its Linux success.

One initiative Red Hat has been “all in” with is OpenStack, the open-source cloud computing initiative created jointly by #Rackspace and #NASA. #OpenStack has grown from an esoteric little science project to a real thing with thousands of contributors, good examples of real-world production workloads, and a growing, if sometimes grudging, acceptance that it is here to stay.

Red Hat, for its part, is well aware that the success of an initiative such as OpenStack relies upon significant, sustainable and real case studies of adoption. It is also hugely predicated on key strategic partnerships. We see moves towards this today with the announcement that Red Hat is partnering with Ericsson to deliver a series of different open-source solutions, all designed to work together and tailored for specific use cases.
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