Author: Cao Heng Kang, Vice President and President of China Red Hat
A year ago, I joined Red Hat this known open source software company, how much with a kind of pilgrimage mentality. But my heart also left questions about the Red Hat: an open-source companies how fierce business stand out from the competition? How open source community, Red Hat inject momentum endless supply of?
These problems in my entry on the occasion of the year, and gradually have a clear answer.
If you use three words to define my year of work experience in Red Hat, the most appropriate than the " opportunity, enthusiasm and cooperation ."
The so-called " opportunities " that Red Hat open source roots soil, deep user experience, and work partners, future growth worth the wait; " passion " throughout the DNA of Red Hat, Red Hat internal employees of the company's passion and dedication, red hat open source community of love and support, Red hat Red hat customers trust and recognition, all the common achievements of Red hat committed to innovation rich fruits; " cooperation " is the Red hat open culture in the most part of the essence, but also business philosophy of the open source community, open source method of coordination and communication with the people of reasonable co-ordinate the deployment of all resources, external build good ecological within the community, such cooperation, sharing, coordination model will undoubtedly play a catalytic role in boosting formula to help Red Hat achieve more innovation.
Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst said, Red Hat's success precisely because of open source, draws strength from the community, promote innovation, and capitalize on change, enter new areas of their own, and growing in the transformation. This is our biggest and most "open" secret.
Friends of open source do a lot, but I think the biggest difference may be that Red Hat is a 100% open source model of software companies to do business. Enterprise-class Linux, for example, one-third of people write code that Red Hat paid out, the other 70% of the code comes from our communities. We put innovation back to the community, I think this is a very important virtuous cycle, but also many companies do not do.
"Internet thinking" to emphasize a single point of breakthrough, the pursuit of perfection, the idea gaining in popularity in China. I think that Red Hat has always been able to ensure that our vision and ability to lock in the open-source platform, partly because we do not touch the hardware, nor do applications. I believe it is this commitment to it, only in exchange for an increase of Red Hat earnings 69 consecutive quarters .
Culture is the soul of an enterprise is located, is also inseparable from the success of Red Hat's corporate culture. Under the guidance of the open source philosophy and spirit, Red Hat has developed a unique culture of openness, Red Hat Global employees are recognized and welcomed the open culture. The value of open organization and its culture rooted in Red Hat, Red Hat people believe in transparency, collaboration and participation with the values of meritocracy, everyone carry out Open Debate based on the principles of respect and equality. We respect each a different voice, but more the principle advocated pursuing "The best idea wins" the. Red Hat also encourage inter-departmental communication and matrix-type AC, reach most effective solution with the most effective of ways.
Red Hat open more than reflected in the work of open source, Red Hat is also reflected in the people's cohesion. Red Hat has a vibrant club culture, like-minded Red Hat employees together to share the passion, share the club activities. We hope to promote the heritage and culture of openness, until good habits become instinctive.
Red Hat is not only focus on creating a climate of open source culture, but also to cultivate microclimate open source. Talent is to promote the innovation and development of the company's most valuable resource, Red Hat Certified Training hopes to be more practical operation capability, enterprises can develop a direct hire, quick start skill talents. To this end we have successfully held seventh for college students, "Red Hat Challenge," a total of more than 10,000 people in college students participated in the competition. Open Source thought the most promising young up connection.
Red Hat also try the open-source culture extends to the client, subtle form of cultural transmission between Red Hat and Enterprise. We have now set up open-source innovation laboratory in China to promote the development of modern applications. This speeds up the cultural transformation, and from the people, technology and methods, building software in Red Hat (open source) in. This transformation by means of hands-on practice, rapid prototyping, DevOps and agile practices to achieve. By 4-12 weeks of immersive experience, Red Hat technical experts collaborate side by side with client teams, expanding the variety of professional skills, tools and processes. In the end of the project, business users will get an effective application prototyping and development of appropriate methods and skills in order to faster and better delivery of software to meet the current market needs, to help customers successfully transform their businesses.
These are the Red Hat open "secret" to open things, the provision of open source city, into the open-source trend. Red Hat is committed to the future, we will fight the Chinese people envy the mouth of the company, to build an open corporate culture with a relaxed happy working atmosphere, the "seeking truth from facts, better" philosophy, to create Red Hat and open source niche formation, continued Red Hat open source leader in strong position to help maximize the value of each employee to achieve individual, a loyal partner enterprise digital transformation. It is inseparable from the founder of a forward-looking vision and pull off the investment, but also inseparable from the past 26 years, a Dingding former "Red Riding Hood" hard struggle and temper line.
As an important milestone in the history of Red Hat, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 and OpenShift 4 was officially released Red Hat Summit 2019, a new era of open hybrid cloud ready. July 3, let us meet in Beijing to witness how open source creativity help Chinese enterprises build a new generation of open hybrid clouds, releasing the unlimited potential!