The Business of Free Software: Red Hat

We speak exclusively to one of the world’s leading technologists in business today.

28 July 2020 . 0:29:49

Show Notes for Series 02 Episode 01

In this opener to series two of the Tech Means Business podcast, we were delighted to speak to Stefanie Chiras, the Vice President and General Manager, RHEL Business Unit at Red Hat.

With a skew of qualifications that would make a recruitment professional weep (Harvard, Princeton, UCSB), Stefanie was a career IBM-er until two years ago, when she shifted up a gear into Red Hat, post-acquisition of the latter by the former. Now at the helm of the pivotal Red Hat Enterprise Linux Business Unit, she’s in the business of making the case for all things FOSS at organizations across the world.

We talk about getting the message right, open-source monetization, and how it’s not about the details of the code, but the outcomes for the business that matter. As the world transitions to open, cloud-y, platform-agnostic solutions and services, we hear how RHEL makes its particular case among the Ubuntus, SUSEs, Salesforces and SAPs of this world.

Stefanie & Joe mull over upstreaming code, communities of developers, high-performance & supercomputing, microservices and monolithic applications: all in all, a substantial series two opener, with more food for thought than an open buffet at a rocket science convention!

Success stories a-plenty from household name companies and organizations:
https://www.redhat.com/en/success-stories

Stefanie’s LinkedIn profile:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/stefanie-chiras-9022144/

Connect with Joe on LinkedIn:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/josephedwardgreen/