As Day 2 begins, I wanted to take the time to remember all the way back to yesterday on theCUBE. It may have been only 24 short hours ago, but the conversations had with some of the top executives, regarded by John Furrier as luminaries in their field, really highlighted the overall maturity of Linux and the open source community as both the future of the Cloud and that community seem to have converged this year.

Both Furrier and his co-host Stu Miniman agree that open source is now a tier 1 frontrunner platform for software development and that is something that has drawn attention from some big names that were not previously associated with open source. With Intel, IBM, Cisco and others participating in the community, it was Paul Cormier who came on theCUBE to issue a warning to developers and customers alike to beware of quasi-open source offerings. His biggest fear was the susceptibility of Linux and the open source community to being forced into repeating the mistakes of the UNIX model.

Watch the Wrap-Up of Day 1 at Red Hat Summit 2014 here:

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Another topic that came up in several conversations and was big news from Red Hat was their unveiling of ‘Project Atomic’, a push into the virtualization container market with help from open source container technology from Docker. Miniman sees this next step as being very important for the advancement of the Cloud.

From each representative of Red Hat on theCUBE a corporate mantra seemed to have been decided upon: physical, virtual, private cloud, and public cloud. And the meaning behind it represents, according to Jim Totton, VP and GM of Platform for Red Hat, “what our customers are running in their own operations.” Red Hat wants to be able to seamlessly merge operations across all 4 environments and their focus and drive is definitely taking them that way.

Open Core seemed to be getting left in the dust, according to Furrier, with OpenStack and OpenShift receiving most of the attention. “Everything going forward will be OpenStack,” Furrier stated.

And the most important aspect for the continued growth and success of the open source will be the attraction of developers to the community. The ability to write in multiple languages will go a long way in helping open source to win the war for the hearts and minds of developers.

With all of the news and information shared on theCUBE yesterday, we encourage you to visit the SiliconANGLE YouTube channel to enjoy each conversation in its entirety.

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