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Innovator’s dilemma

Innovator’s dilemma

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Issac Roth, John Poelstra, and Scott Crenshaw discuss how OpenShift managed to take Red Hat from acute anxiety to developer groundswell and dominance in the coming cloud.

Topics discussed:

  • The business environment that allowed for Red Hat to consider acquiring OpenShift. (“Red Had suffered from acute anxiety about being disintermediated and losing its business model.”)
  • All the things had to go right for OpenShift to become a success. (“The path looks linear in retrospect, but it never is in practice.”) 
  • Launching containerized apps. (“No one wanted to use the word ‘containers.’”)
  • Pushing innovation and experimentation inside a bigger company.
  • Building a go-to-market machine.
  • Embracing a competitor (Docker).
  • Creating a developer groundswell through inclusion.
  •  The vegetable oil-spewing Franken-car.
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