Red Hat exec hits back at govt open source shyness
Red Hat executive Craig Munzilla has rebuked recent comments made by Australian government department CIOs who feel open source technologies lack sufficient support, and are therefore not considering their adoption.
According to Munzilla, companies and government departments tend to “like the flexibility of open source”, but in many cases see it as unstable and volatile due to a perceived lack of support. “I think it’s from a lack of understanding of the model,” he said, saying that Red Hat is in discussions with a number of government departments - which he would not name specifically - whose representatives had not displayed the same level of reservation as CIOs like [Department of Defence CIO Greg] Farr. “We’re engaged in a number of situations where we haven’t heard that comment yet, and this is both at state and federal level,” he said.
