Mark Bohannon, Vicepresidente, Asuntos Corporativos y Políticas Públicas Globales de RedHat. C+G 2012.

1. C+G Ciudadanía y Gobierno Digital
Santiago, Chile
MARK BOHANNON
Vice President, Global Public Policy, Red Hat
November 20, 2012

2. WHAT WE DO
We offer a range of mission-critical software and services covering:
CLOUD MIDDLEWARE
MIDDLEWARE OPERATING SYSTEM
VIRTUALIZATION STORAGE
THE BENEFITS
Flexibility
Faster technology innovation
Better quality
Better price/performance
Alignment to user needs

3. MISSION-CRITICAL ENTERPRISE CUSTOMERS
RELY ON RED HAT ENTERPRISE LINUX
TELCO SECTOR FINANCIAL SECTOR
Over 50% of the world‟s trading volume
100% of the Top 5 APAC stock exchanges
28 stock exchanges
24 countries across the globe
12 countries in Asia Pacific
GOVERNMENT SECTOR

4. HOW WE DO IT
 We develop everything via community-
powered innovation.
 Shared development reduces costs &
accelerates innovation.
 Open collaboration offers products that
genuinely meet customers' requirements.

6. Red Hat ranks no.4 in Forbes'
list of the most innovative companies
in the world.
FORBES, The World's Most Innovative Companies 2012

7. GOVERNMENT TRENDS
Strong Wind Behind Open Source

8. POLICY ENVIRONMENT DRIVING ACCEPTANCE
>40 GOVERNMENTS

9. GLOBAL MOVEMENT
• Australia
 Australian Government Information Management Office (AGIMO)
Circular, “Open Source Software Policy”
Sweden
 'Öppna programvaror 2010' (Open Source Software 2010)
Malaysia
 Public Sector OSS Master Plan
Iceland
 Free and Open-source Software - Government Policy of Iceland

10. “DIGITAL AGENDAS”
 Digital Government -- An effective means of
civic engagement
 Government using community-powered
innovation to achieve success
 Relies on open data – open government
 Always open source!
 App Contests

11. U.S. Administration Commits to Open Source
“We believe in using and contributing back to open source
software as a way of making it easier for the government to
share data, improve tools and services, and return value to
taxpayers.” -
http://www.whitehouse.gov/developers

12. “The days of proprietary technology must come to an end.
We will no longer accept systems that couple hardware,
software, and data.”
– Vice Admiral Mark Edwards,
Deputy Chief of Naval Operations

13. • “[Through its ICT strategy], the Government will also
put an end to the oligopoly of large suppliers that monopolise
its ICT provision ... streamline the procurement process to
break down the barriers that impede Small & Medium-sized
Entities (SMEs) from bidding for contracts ... [and] create a
level playing field for SMEs and system integrators by creating
a platform based on
common standards.”
• -- UK Cabinet Office,
Government ICT Strategy, March 2011

14. • “With the platform migration and adoption of JBoss Enterprise
Middleware we expect to achieve greater speed and flexibility in
processing our database, which contains information from the
entire population”
• -- Francisco José Marques, General Coordinator of Analysis
Maintenance and the Ministry of Health (Brazil)

15. OPEN SOURCE BENEFITS TO GOVERNMENT
 Increased focus on re-use
and modularity.
 Interoperability is a central
PREVENT VENDOR LOCK-IN. goal.
SHARED SERVICES.
SERVICES MIX GROWING.  Trend away from
customized, 'big ticket'
projects.
 Data center consolidation,
and a move to cloud and
virtualized environments.
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16. OPEN SOURCE BENEFITS TO GOVERNMENT
 "Cloud" approaches at
infrastructure, platform,
software/application level
PREVENT VENDOR LOCK-IN.
SHARED SERVICES.
SERVICES MIX GROWING.  Mobile increases demand
for real-time government
services both public and
internal
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17. THE NEXT CHAPTER: BEYOND LINUX
 Virtualization
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18. THE NEXT CHAPTER: BEYOND LINUX
 Virtualization
 Cloud
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19. THE NEXT CHAPTER: BEYOND LINUX
 Virtualization
 Cloud
 Messaging
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20. THE NEXT CHAPTER: BEYOND LINUX
 Virtualization
 Cloud
 Messaging
 Big Data
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21. THE FUTURE:
Community-powered
Open-Collaborative Innovation

22. Traditional, Top-Down Collaborative, Bottom-Up
Model Model
R&D done in a physical lab, because Inherently tied to Internet-powered
the best people work for us world, often using Cloud platforms and
applications, because the best ideas
MIDDLEWARE can come from anywhere.
To succeed, must be first to The business model may be more
commercialize and get it to market important to success
Must invest upfront in the discovery, R&D from outside the firm and from
development and delivery diverse disciplines may be more
valuable; Public Cloud reduces
investment costs
Production of intellectual property is Distribution of results builds
primary, characterized by „close hold‟ communities and builds networks and
management users of your product

23. WE LIVE IN AN
OPEN SOURCE WORLD
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