Red Hat bemoans poor Aussie open source takeup
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Senior Red Hat executives today admitted open source software was "peripheral" to the IT strategies of most Australian organisations.
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"The enthusiasm from the corporate and government sectors is still very far behind almost everywhere else I've been," the Linux vendor's vice president of open source affairs, Michael Tiemann, told ZDNet Australia today.
"In terms of how central it is to strategy, open source seems very peripheral here."
Tiemann is one of Red Hat's most senior executives, having held the chief technology officer role for several years up until mid 2004.
He is extremely well-known in the open source community and currently serves as interim president of the Open Source Initiative, the non-profit body which defines which software licences can be classified as open source. Full Story |
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