Issac Roth, John Poelstra, and Scott Crenshaw discuss how OpenShift managed to take Red Hat from acute anxiety to developer groundswell and dominance in the coming cloud.
Topics discussed:
- The business environment that allowed for Red Hat to consider acquiring OpenShift. (“Red Had suffered from acute anxiety about being disintermediated and losing its business model.”)
- All the things had to go right for OpenShift to become a success. (“The path looks linear in retrospect, but it never is in practice.”)
- Launching containerized apps. (“No one wanted to use the word ‘containers.’”)
- Pushing innovation and experimentation inside a bigger company.
- Building a go-to-market machine.
- Embracing a competitor (Docker).
- Creating a developer groundswell through inclusion.
- The vegetable oil-spewing Franken-car.
