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'No Bossy' Culture At Red Hat!
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Red Hat's culture is something between a democracy and a commune.
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Wednesday, February 08, 2012:
Jackie Yeaney, Red Hat's new top strategy woman, said that the company doesn't follow the trend of military structures where the bosses rule and the employees follow orders or find the door. This is because it is an open source company.
Red Hat's culture is something between a democracy and a commune. It is the nature of an open source company wherein writing software is always a collaboration. She said that with such kind of culture you might be arrogant in believing that open source is the way to go, but this prevents people from becoming arrogant themselves including executives.
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Yeaney further added that believing in open source means that only you are not the one who knows the best--thus implying that there are other people around to provide input and make it better. She said that she has spent months in polling employees in depth. She's got a team of seven people who in turn work with a team of another 30 employees. She interviewed another 50 beyond that. Then they put the best ideas in a room (called a "mirror gallery") and collected even more employee feedback.
To this, she said that at Red Hat you have to build credibility and respect. It really doesn't matter what your title says. All that matters is your saying and doing. She said that Red Hat is one of the only places wherein the CEO can say “I'd like ABC to happen” and it may or may not happen. She convincingly said that this type of work environment is now coming to every company.
Yeaney listed out some points on the grand strategy that Red Hat will implement in 2012 and beyond:
1. To grow customers for its VMware competitor, a virtualisation technology known as KVM.
2. Do all things cloud but keep its OpenShift cloud free. OpenShift is a 'platform as a service' cloud where developers can store applications written in certain languages (Java, Ruby, PHP, Perl and Python). It allows Red Hat to identify early stage projects that the company may want to support.
3. Stitch together its core products (Linux, JBoss, virtualisation etc.) into packages that address specific problems (or in marketing-speak 'solutions').
4. Continue growing customers for its core Red Hat Enterprise Linux subscriptions, which is still the company's bread-and-butter.
Shivangi Anand, EFYTIMES News Network
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