1. NASA Open Source Summit
29-30 March 2011
Brian Stevens, CTO, VP WW Eng, Red Hat
2. 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
3. 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
4. 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.
5. 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
6. 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
7. 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)
8. 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/
9. 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
10. > 18,000 Registered Fedora account holders
> 5M Unique IP address accessing the Fedora repositories in 2010
22. 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