Red Hat, Inc.’s  latest move with JBoss is catapulting it straight into the cloud with Enterprise Application Platform 7 (EAP 7). Red Hat announced EAP 7’s release at Red Hat Summit 2016 in San Francisco. EAP 7 is designed to handle moving Java sever applications into the cloud. It’s specifically designed to work with OpenShift. This project has been 10 years in the making, starting with the JBoss acquisition.

Craig Muzilla, senior VP of the Application Platforms Business Group at Red Hat, Inc., joined Stu Miniman (@stu) and Brian Gracely (@bgracely), cohosts of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, for an interview to discuss EAP 7 and other topics. Muzilla described EAP 7 as a way to create “smaller footprints.”

On Java, Muzilla remarked is still the number-one-used language. He continued, saying Java is “here to stay.” He also talked about the challenges of digital transformations, stating that customer’s visions are all about how you create it. He encouraged people to embrace that it is “all going to change.”

Open source creates the best talent

When the conversation turned to talent, Muzilla was insistent that open source is the best way to recruit talent. The wider the community is, the better for developing a wider variety of developers. Muzilla supported belonging to multiple communities for best results.

Muzilla spoke briefly on DevNation (a full stack development conference featuring the best in open source), calling it open-source centric. He then invited developers to come out to the conference from June 26-29 in San Francisco to “get their hands dirty.” DevNation features a Hackathon as well.

Talking on the future, Muzilla predicted: “Everything we do will have software involved.” He sees a need for more polyglots when it comes to coding languages.

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

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