 From Seattle, Washington extracting the signal from the noise. It's the cube on the ground at LinuxCon North America 2015 Now here's your host Jeff Frick Hey Jeff Frick here with John Furrier. We are on the ground in Seattle, Washington at LinuxCon North America 2015 We've left the Bay Area. We came to the Great Pacific Northwest for a little tour. John, what do you think? That's a great tour. I mean coming up to Seattle. We got Amazon up here. You got Opus Dax Seattle Obviously LinuxCon. Jeff, this is this is the show that a lot gets done with not a lot of fanfare because it's not the big Pimping out show not a lot of big marketing and sales. It's kind of like all the budget goes towards more sessions I mean hell they didn't even have lunch out there today Pennies go out for lunch. All the money goes into technical sessions and networking So, you know big heavy hitters here Solomon Ikes is here from Docker I saw Ping Lee from Excel partners out in the wild pound the pavement doing deals Excel's here tier one VC Ping Lee's top dog over there at Excel again This is where the change is happening Linux is the innovation engine of the future and certainly cloud and I'll see developers It's funny some of the people that we had on talking about kind of the community in the feel here of the show They talk about it being big, you know, we go to some big shows We have VMworld in a couple weeks EMC world Oracle open world. I mean those are big shows This is a tiny show, but it's such an intimate community. They all know each other that this feels big to them And even though the show's been going on for a long time It's still growing, but it's very intimate. It's really a geeky developer as it's telling the Greg off here I don't mean times Colonel came up today, but more often than in our typical kind of cube interviews Well, I mean the challenge of this show right now is that they got to go mainstream It's always been a boutique little cottage industry the Linux market, you know Linux Turbles on stage Linux is now mainstream and what they have to do is they got to up their game They got to get bigger budgets. They got to take it on the road. This show is to cottage industry It needs to get bigger. It needs to spread the word There is a huge global population and developers out there that want to tap into this innovation from Internet of Things to security We saw the Ashley medicine hack you seeing Internet of Things going on you see big data So much is going on with Linux as a tier one software platform and first-class citizen the enterprise and service providers It has to get bigger. So these guys really got to scratch their heads and say how do we take the Linux foundation? Event and go global with it. So that's a big challenge here because there's so much demand Yeah, but it's interesting because we had Suze on and you know the Linux is covering everything from they have a Some announcements with system C and IBM in the main frame all the way to the other the other side Which is really about containers and Docker and all the buzz we've seen at Docker con So it's really spreading its weak and then covering everything from the old to the new well This is the thing Solomon I saw Solomon hikes down there from Docker He's sitting around the round table. He's holding court and they're working out They're having real technical conversations and then the other hand you have IBM system Z main frame on Linux This is a watershed moment for IBM and the Linux community because it's a total endorsement that the main frame is now crossed over to Linux It's it's it's totally awesome. I mean this you have the two ends of spectrum pure developers mainstream Commercialization so Linux is being operationalized and again the demand is huge and the innovations there We had start as we talked to again the VCs are pounding the pavements I mean seeing a tier one VC out on the streets here in Seattle is a testament to the innovation going on from Kubernetes to orchestration to cloud in the enterprise It's all kicking some serious, but yeah, and then the other cool thing is that you know Linux really kind of set the standard for how open-source projects can grow and develop and and learn some tough lessons about About fragmenting and you know kind of keeping keeping good management to keep the open-source project On track and now that that is being leveraged across all these other open-source projects that we're seeing that are growing It seems like wildfire something like every day We're hearing about a new cool open-source project whether it be Docker whether be Kubernetes or whatever Yeah, I mean my prediction you're gonna see is a connect a connected World we live in in social media and mobile and remote working that open source is gonna go to a whole another level So my prediction is what we have seen with open source is going is small Compared to where it's going to be because now you have frictionless communication You have people working in groups again this conference can be taken physically from this event and blown out into a larger scale Because people are working as groups right it's self-governing This is pure democracy in terms of software development, but again It's a global platform now and so more and more is going to get done Yeah, and it's no accident here We are here in Seattle and there's a little company down the street called Amazon that you know AWS really driving the cloud and there's another company down the street Microsoft that maybe we you know, we don't hear as much about Azure But for sure they're everywhere in terms of they're installed base and moving the Microsoft folks into the cloud And so it's that cloud and in mobile combination driving tremendous development in data centers Which then goes into the virtualization of the compute the store and now more and more that the The networking yeah, I mean the history is clear I mean Linux first beat the mini computer guys and then Sun microsystems of the world the mini computer operating systems And then it beat Microsoft now Microsoft's embracing Linux Linux also made AWS happen Amazon web services So Linux is winning everywhere. So that's the bottom line is that Linux is winning big So it has already won and continues to take territory in terms of the mindshare and also scale and again robust Critical infrastructure. I mean 10 plus years SLA with red hat for rel. That's kind of that trend is spreading in every single Commercial product. Okay, so what's next? What's the next thing you want to see from the folks here at the Linux Foundation? I think the next thing I want to see is more startup action not enough startup Competitions not enough action in and getting this access to some of the visibility startups I want to see more big names coming in here. I want to see more than just IBM here I want to see other big players I want to see more contribution from the large scale market players like Amazon and then some of the service providers But more importantly you want to see much more more media. You got to see more Global penetration of Linux. I want to see more more content. Yeah, well, it's certainly a great trip We're happy to come up here beautiful flight this morning Mount Rainier out in the in the distance and and we're excited We're gonna stay for another day. We're gonna go to open stack Seattle tomorrow and give you the The scene from there which really leads into open stack Silicon Valley next week and then VM world and then fall tour just goes They go more and more. All right. The cube is here on the grounds. It was landed. He was leaving. All right He's going for your I'm Jeff freak. You're watching the cube. We'll catch you next time. Thanks for watching