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NASA Open Source Summit29-30 March 2011Brian Stevens, CTO, VP WW Eng, Red Hat
Where have we been ...
80's - UNIX and de-centralized computing
90's - “Open systems” but differentiated, Linux in hiding
2000 – Commodity hardware platforms and open source
and where are we now.
Commodity HW platforms lead in feature innovation
Broad-base Linux acceptance
Business model exploration in the land of free software
OSS inspired collaboration and development models. Being
applied to all layers of the s/w stack.
User-driven innovation
What should we care about?
Sharing. Building on each other's successes. Avoiding re-invention.
Efficiency.
Agility.
Building predictable, secure and quality systems. Repeatedly.
Measure and reward based on the above.
Collaboration not Islands
Enabled by:
Non-restrictive software licenses
The internet and tools
Communities of Interest
Intra-business development practices being influenced
Techniques are imperfect, evolving, and self-correcting
SELinux ... as an example Initial public release in Dec 2000, regular updates
Active public mailing list, >900 members
SELinux adopted into Linux 2.6 stable series (2003)
Integrated into Red Hat distributions
Fedora Core 3 and later
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (supported product)
Adopted by Gentoo, Debian, Slackware, Ubuntu, TCS Trusted Linux
Foundation for HP's NetTop
Today serves as the security foundation for virtualization and cloud
SELinux Ongoing Development
LSPP Certification @ EAL4+ (Red Hat)
Enhanced MLS support (Everybody)
MCS support (Red Hat)
Security-Enhanced X (NSA and TCS)
Enhanced Audit subsystem (IBM, Red Hat, HP)
IPSEC integration (IBM); CIPSO (HP)
Enhanced application integration (Red Hat)
Policy tools / infrastructure (Tresys, MITRE, IBM, Hitachi, 10-art-ni)
Scalability and performance (NEC, Red Hat, IBM)
Transparency not Opacity
Access, exchange, and contribution
Peer review for ideas and correctness
Re-usable code and modules rather than alternatives
The learned become teachers
More like this:
http://www.itproportal.com/2011/03/17/linux-kernel-2638-arrives-with-deep-changes/
than this:
http://www.dotspress.com/google-restricts-access-to-android-honeycomb/771519/
Fedora
A 100% pure open source distribution
The best of what works today in the world of open source
Frequent, roll-forward releases
A toolkit for user-driven innovation
A new way to approach the development
of enterprise-class software
> 18,000 Registered Fedora account holders
> 5M Unique IP address accessing the Fedora repositories in 2010
Cgroups: resource confinement
Closing thoughts on OSS business models
Treat your customer as a partner, not a revenue source
Focus on the SLA
Understand your customers needs before you design
Measure yourself on customer success, not revenue
Create long-standing relationships which aren't disrupted by
product features of others
Avoid the false comfort, and trappings, of lock-in: look to value
creation rather than protection
Disrupt not just others but yourself
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