Gery Messer, president, Red Hat Asia-Pacifc and Japan
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Q: What was the biggest thing that affected your company this year?
The financial crisis. It has woken up enterprises to the value of open source more powerfully than anything else before.
In the prevailing environment, IT professionals are adopting open source to save money and enhance their competitiveness, to carve costs out of their IT infrastructure.
These are severe economic times. As enterprises redouble their effort to contain IT costs, the economic conditions present them with the opportunity to redefine the way they develop and consume software. IT organizations must do things differently from previous times. It can no longer be business as usual if they are to help their enterprises grow efficiently and effectively.
What is the biggest myth about open source and why?
The biggest myth about open source software is that it is not ready for the enterprise. It very much is.
Just because open source software does not lock in customers with proprietary licenses does not mean it is not capable of mission critical operations.
Open source is as robust as it is disruptive of industry norms--it delivers flexibility through open standards; accelerated innovation through collaboration; choice through the subscription model. It forces the enterprises to rethink they way things are done.
What technology innovation or product are you looking forward to next year?
2009 is the year of the Cloud. Red Hat believes that grid-based,cloud computing will gain traction simply by taking advantage of the efficiency provided by virtualization, the flexibility provided by open standards middleware, the robustness of messaging realtime grid (MRG) needed for real-time transaction processing, as well a Virtual Desktop Integration platform as a consumption device.
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