Red Hat expects to see Linux make up only half its business within two years, as the firm plans KSA, Qatar and Kuwait offices, and sees customers in fear of being \u2018Ubered\u2019, writes Eliot Beer from GITEX Technology Conference.<\/p>\n
The shift for Red Hat has been towards infrastructure- and platform-as-a-service, according to Lee Miles, General Manager for the Middle East and Africa: \u201cLinux is still about 70% of our business \u2013 but we expect it to be about 50% of our business within the next two years. There\u2019s a huge transformation towards cloud, towards big data and towards mobile.\u201d<\/p>\n
He said the firm is also planning a regional change to diversify its regional operations: \u201cWe will open an office in Saudi Arabia next year, to expand our regional presence outside of Dubai \u2013 and we\u2019re also looking at longer term plans for the region to expand into Kuwait and Qatar.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mobile development is becoming an increasingly important area for regional enterprises, according to Miles: \u201cI don\u2019t really like the term, but people talk about being \u2018Ubered\u2019 \u2013 there\u2019s somebody out there that can transform an industry overnight. So companies are looking for a way to not just having an internet presence, but really have an application or mobile presence that enables their customers to interact with them better.\u201d<\/p>\n
Despite the firm\u2019s diversification, Miles said Linux was still providing good growth for Red Hat, and was the backbone for much of the firm\u2019s development. He suggested the climate had never been better for the open-source operating system.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s really only two operating systems around now, and ours is the growth one, as opposed to the other,\u201d Miles told Intelligent CIO.<\/p>\n
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