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Red Hat CEO Optimistic About OpenShift 4.0 as RHEL Lags

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Sean Michael Kerner
Sep 20, 2018

The better OpenShift does and the more time we’re spending on that, the less time we’re selling RHEL,” Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst said during his company’s earnings call. “There’s just so much momentum around OpenShift right now, that it does kind of eat into selling time on RHEL; We feel really good about the macro trends around Linux and it’s just about the ability of us to have the bandwidth to pick it all up.”

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Sean Michael Kerner

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