The CentOS Project and Red Hat to accelerate community adoption and
innovation for next-generation open source projects
RALEIGH, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Red Hat, Inc, (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source
solutions, and the CentOS Project today announced they are joining
forces to build a new CentOS, capable of driving forward development and
adoption of next-generation open source technologies.
This collaboration strengthens Red Hat's proven business model by
extending the Red Hat open source development ecosystem. Red Hat
anticipates that taking a role as a catalyst within the CentOS community
will enable it to accelerate development of enterprise-grade
subscription solutions for customers and partners, such as Red Hat
Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform, Red Hat
Cloud Infrastructure, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, Red Hat JBoss
Middleware, OpenShift by Red Hat, and Red Hat Storage.
Ten years ago, Red
Hat formed the Fedora Project to deliver advanced, state-of-the-art
features for Linux. Just as a traditional operating system relies on the
hardware beneath it, so too do projects such as cloud, virtualization,
and Software-Defined Networking (SDN) rely on the foundation of an
operating system. Fast development pace and openness to change make
Fedora an excellent place for operating system innovations and related
projects. Today, by taking an active role in the CentOS Project, Red Hat
is once again extending its leadership in open source innovation by
helping to establish a platform well-suited to the needs of open source
developers that integrate technologies in and around the operating
system.
With today's announcement, Red Hat extends its commitment to rapid open
source technology and solution development to deliver:
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Commercial development and deployment: Red Hat Enterprise Linux,
the world's leading enterprise Linux platform, offering an extensive
ecosystem of partners, a comprehensive portfolio of certified hardware
and software offerings, and Red Hat's award winning support,
consulting, and training services. Red Hat subscriptions deliver this
value combined with access to the industry's most extensive ecosystem
of partners, customers, and Linux experts to support and accelerate
success.
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Community integration beyond the operating system: CentOS, a
community-supported and produced Linux distribution that draws on Red
Hat Enterprise Linux and other open source technologies to provide a
platform that's open to variation. CentOS provides a base for
community adoption and integration of open source cloud, storage,
network, and infrastructure technologies on a Red Hat-based platform.
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Operating system innovation across the stack: Fedora, a
community-supported and produced Linux distribution that makes it easy
for users to consume and contribute to leading-edge open source
technologies from the kernel to the cloud. As a cutting edge
development platform where every level of the stack is open to
revision and improvement, Fedora will continue to serve as the
upstream project on which future Red Hat Enterprise Linux releases are
based.
Since its initial release in 2004, the CentOS Project has grown to
include a significant amount of focus on open source technology
integration and a sizable user community. Red Hat and the CentOS Project
recognize an opportunity to begin a new era by collaborating to expand
the CentOS Project to address innovation, community contribution, and
participation up the stack and beyond the operating system. By joining
forces with the CentOS Project, Red Hat aims to accelerate community
innovation, engagement, and momentum around open source cloud and
infrastructure projects.
Red Hat will contribute its resources and expertise in building thriving
open source communities to the new CentOS Project to help establish more
open project governance and a roadmap, broaden opportunities for
participation, open pathways for contribution, and provide new ways for
CentOS users and contributors to bring the power of open source
innovation to all areas of the software stack. With Red Hat's
contributions and investment, the CentOS Project will be able to expand
and accelerate, serving the needs of community members who require
different or faster-moving components layered on top of CentOS,
expanding on existing efforts to collaborate with open source projects
such as OpenStack, RDO, Gluster, OpenShift Origin, and oVirt.
Webcast
Brian Stevens, executive vice president and chief technology officer,
Red Hat, will host a webcast to discuss today's announcement at 5:00
p.m. ET on January 7, 2014. Following remarks, press and analysts are
invited to participate in a question and answer session.
To join the webcast or view the replay after the event, visit: https://vts.inxpo.com/Launch/QReg.htm?ShowKey=17984
Supporting Quotes
Brian Stevens, executive vice president and chief technology officer,
Red Hat
"It is core to our beliefs that when people who share goals or problems
are free to connect and work together, their pooled innovations can
change the world. We believe the open source development process
produces better code, and a community of users creates an audience that
makes code impactful. Cloud technologies are moving quickly, and
increasingly, that code is first landing in Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Today is an exciting day for the open source community; by joining
forces with the CentOS Project, we aim to build a vehicle to get
emerging technologies like OpenStack and big data into the hands of
millions of developers."
Karanbir Singh, lead developer, CentOS Project
"CentOS owes its success not just to the source code it's built from,
but to the hard work and enthusiasm of its user community. Now that we
are able to count Red Hat among the active contributors to the CentOS
Project, we have access to the resources and expertise we'll need to
expand the scope and reach of the CentOS community while remaining
committed to our current and new users."
Al Gillen, program vice president, System Software, IDC
"CentOS is one of the major non-commercial distributions in the
industry, and a key adjacent project for many Red Hat Enterprise Linux
customers. This relationship helps strengthen the CentOS community, and
will ensure that CentOS benefits directly from the community-centric
development approach that Red Hat both understands and heavily supports.
Given the growing opportunities for Linux in the market today in areas
such as OpenStack, cloud and big data, a stronger CentOS technology
backed by the CentOS community — including Red Hat — is a positive
development that helps the overall industry."
Stephen O'Grady, principal analyst, RedMonk
"Though it will doubtless come as a surprise, this move by Red Hat
represents the logical embrace of an adjacent ecosystem. Bringing the
CentOS and Red Hat communities closer together should be a win for both
parties."
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