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Red Hat CEO Whitehurst on innovation, OpenStack, Hadoop

What’s the state of open source today? Whitehurst said open source has evolved to become a leading innovation engine. “Open source is how innovation is happening. Open source started off making copies of other things, but now it’s leading. Big data and software defined networking are open source,” explained Whitehurst. “The new stuff is happening in open source.”

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