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On the Record with Jim Whitehurst, Red Hat’s New CEO: “I Must Have a Mission”

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Matt Asay
Jan 4, 2008

[ Thanks to Matt Asay
for this link. ]

“I wasn’t very nice to Jim Whitehurst when I heard the news that
he had been named the new CEO of Red Hat to replace Matthew Szulik.
My reasoning? Matthew Szulik had done so much for Red Hat and
besides, what could a Delta Air Lines COO have to teach about open
source?

“Plenty, it turns out. I interviewed Jim this morning and was
shocked to discover that so much passion and belief in open source
could exist in an airlines operations guy. This is the right person
to take the helm from Matthew Szulik…”

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Matt Asay

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