Red Hat CEO Is Ready To Squash Microsoft, VMware, and Oracle

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Jim Whitehurst, CEO of Red Hat has some fighting words for old-school software makers like Microsoft, VMware and Oracle.

He wants them gone. Or at least, he wants their closed, proprietary software outta here.

Now that Red Hat has become the first and only pure open-source company with a billion dollars in annual revenues, his goal is  the death (more or less) of proprietary software.

"We got to a billion dollars by convincing the world that open source is a viable alternative to traditional proprietary software," Whitehurst told Business Insider. "The next step is to make open source the default choice in this next generation of computing. That's what takes us from $1 billion to $5 billion and beyond."

http://www.businessinsider.com/red-hat-ceo-jim-whitehurst-microsoft-vmware-oracle-2012-6