Van Wyk Aims to Transform Red Hat for Future Growth | Linux Today

Van Wyk Aims to Transform Red Hat for Future Growth

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Oct 31, 2007

“Having established itself as the leading enterprise Linux
vendor, Red Hat is in a pivotal phase of reinventing itself as a
broader open-source software provider and a long-term technology
leader a la Microsoft and Oracle. It’s a tall order, and among
other things it will take a business plan that lets the company
move smoothly through this make-or-break stage.

“Coming up with that internal plan lies on the shoulders of
30-year IT veteran Nick Van Wyk. Van Wyk joined Red Hat last year
from EMC, taking a newly created role as vice president of
operations to optimize Red Hat’s subscription model and create
better business processes to support the company’s channel…”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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