New Red Hat CEO Paul Cormier faces a slew of challenges in the midst of pandemic | Linux Today

New Red Hat CEO Paul Cormier faces a slew of challenges in the midst of pandemic

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Ron Miller
May 1, 2020

This week was Cormier’s first Red Hat Summit as CEO, one that like so many conferences had to pivot from a live event to virtual fairly quickly. Customers have been nervous, and this was the first chance to really reconnect with them since things have shut down. He says that he was pleasantly surprised how well it worked, even allowing more people to attend than might pay to travel to a live event.

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Ron Miller

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