Paul Cormier, president of Product and Technologies for Red Hat, Inc., told theCUBE during Red Hat Summit 2015 that everything the company creates goes back to the open-source community. A newly acquired company may present the one exception.

“If we acquire a company that doesn’t have open-source technology, it may take us 60 to 90 days to get through the process, but our promise is to [send everything to open source],” Cormier said.

He also discussed how the company supports three Hypervisors: VMware, Microsoft, and Red Hat. “That’s an economic decision,” he said. “But in the case of OpenStack, with its close ties to Linux, our support is mostly a technical decision.”

Containers-as-a-Service

theCUBE cohosts Dave Vellante and Stu Miniman dug deep into OpenStack and containers during their interview with Cormier, who sees room for development in Containers-as-a-Service.

“People think containers are magic and run in air,” Cormier said. “It is an operating system. What’s in a container is OS. Containers do not quite have fully fledged production in a big way yet, and people aren’t thinking about production-level issues. If I deploy 100,000 containers and the Shellshock bug comes out, what happens? That’s what we plan to address.”

Watch the full interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE and theCUBE’s coverage of Red Hat Summit 2015.

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