How Red Hat’s Linux and OpenStack IaaS drives Intel’s bottom line

Grazed from The Server Side. Author: Cameron McKenzie.

As a software architect attending a developer conference like the 2013 Red Hat Summit, one of the least interesting vendors on the docket has to be Intel. They are always there, set up with a big booth in the exhibitors pavilion at the Oracle OpenWorld and IBM Innovate conferences, and while it all seems interesting to the low-level hardware guys, chips and processors simply aren’t the bailiwick of coders. Don’t get me wrong, it’s not that processors aren’t important to the wellbeing of developers, but they’re important in the same way that air is important for sustaining life – things fall apart if it disappears, but so long as it’s there, it’s boring as hell.

Interestingly though, Dirk Hohndel , Chief Linux and Open Source Technologist at Intel, in the most entertaining of the array of morning keynotes at the 2013 Red Hat Summit made some pretty compelling arguments about why Intel should be taken more seriously as a player in the open-source software development world…

Intel and open source

Now if you threw up in your throat just a little bit when you heard the word Intel and open source spoken in the same sentence, you’re not alone. After all, simply by virtue of the segment they are in, hardware companies hoard patents and protect their intellectual property (IP) at levels of extreme to which the software industry could only aspire. And this isn’t said to disparage Intel. Patent trolling is the scourge of the software development industry, but when it comes to hardware, IT professionals understand the need for hardware companies to protect the inventions that innovate and drive the industry forward. But why is Intel keynoting at a Red Hat conference and cozying up to the open-source crowd?…

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