Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst said yesterday - his fourth day on the job - that he's angling for a showdown with two tech titans in what he describes as a struggle to protect information sharing in software development. No longer satisfied just defending a company as he did while working at Delta Air Lines, Whitehurst is ready to go on the offensive against Oracle and Microsoft as he builds Red Hat toward billion-dollar annual revenues.
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New Red Hat CEO Prepares to Take on Oracle, Microsoft
Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst said yesterday - his fourth day on the job - that he's angling for a showdown with two tech titans in what he describes as a struggle to protect information sharing in software development. No longer satisfied just defending a company as he did while working at Delta Air Lines, Whitehurst is ready to go on the offensive against Oracle and Microsoft as he builds Red Hat toward billion-dollar annual revenues.
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