Red Hat: Containers are Not Magic | Linux Today

Red Hat: Containers are Not Magic

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Sean Michael Kerner
May 2, 2017

The Red Hat Summit got underway today, highlighted by a new partnership with Amazon for OpenShift, that doesn’t involve the Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) and some bold pronouncements about competitors in the cloud market.

“When Linux first started it really was a commodity play,” Paul Cormier, President of product and technology at Red Hat (pictured) said during a the Red Hat Summit press conference. “What has happened over the last ten plus years, is that Linux has moved from commodity, to where all the innovation is.”

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Sean Michael Kerner

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