New Red Hat CEO faces hybrid cloud challenges
Summary
Red Hats leadership is undergoing a changing of the guard, as Matt Hicks is promoted to CEO and Paul Cormier takes on a new role as chairman of the company. As it shuffles its executives, the company is still working to get some of the same fundamental messages championed by Cormier across to enterprise IT pros about the nature of open source security and sustainability and hybrid cloud. Paul Cormier: Ive been at Red Hat for 21 years, and when the [IBM] acquisition happened, I gave some thought to, well, maybe that was a good time [to change roles]. Hicks: I think we learned a lot going SaaS-first with OpenShift in terms of how we take core product innovation and deliver it in a new model to customers. Hicks: I dont know if I would classify it as risk to the business, but the continued adoption, trust and sustainability of open source is obviously foundational for our work.
