 From Boston, Massachusetts, it's theCUBE. Covering Red Hat Summit 2017, brought to you by Red Hat. It is day three of the Red Hat Summit here in Boston, Massachusetts. I'm Rebecca Knight, along with Stu Miniman. We are wrapping up this conference, Stu. We just had the final keynote of the morning. You, before the cameras were rolling, you were teasing me a little bit that you have more scoop on the AWS deal. I'm interested to hear what you learned. Rebecca, first of all, may the fourth be with you. Well, thank you, of course, yes. And also with you. Always, yeah. So, you know, day three of the keynote, they started out with a little bit of fun. They gave out some may the fourth, you know, be with you t-shirts. They had a little Star Wars duel that I was periscoping this morning, so love their geeking out. I've got my, you know, Millennium Falcon cufflinks on. You're into it. I saw a bunch of guys wearing t-shirts. Princess Leia was walking around. Princess Leia was walking around. There were stormtroopers there. Yeah, Carrie Fisher. Absolutely. But the Amazon stuff. Sure, I think this is the biggest news coming out of the show. I've said this a number of times and we're still kind of teasing out exactly what it is because partially, you know, really this is, you know, still being built out. It's not going to be shipping till later this year. So, you know, things like how pricing works. We're still going to get there. But there's some people that were like, oh wait, you know, OpenShift can be in AWS. That's great. But then I can do AWS services on-premises. Well, what that doesn't mean, of course, is that I don't have everything that Amazon does, you know, packaged up into a nice little container. We understand how computer coding works and even with open source and you know, how we can make things serverless. And it's not like I can take everything that AWS is and shove it in my data center. It's just not feasible. What that means though is it is the same applications that I can run. It's running an OpenShift and really there's the hooks and the APIs to make sure that I can leverage services that are used in AWS. Of course, from my standpoint, I'm like, okay. So tell me a little bit about how kind of, you know, what latency there's going to be between those services. But it'll be well understood as we build these, you know, what it's going to be used for certain use cases. You know, we already talked to like Optum. Was really excited about how they could do this for their environment. So it's something we expect to be talking about, you know, throughout the rest of the year. And you know, by the time we get to AWS, re-invent the week after Thanksgiving, I expect we'll have a lot more details. So we'll be comfortable with that. And it will be rolled out too. So we'll have a really good sense of how it's working in the marketplace. So other thoughts on the keynote. I mean, one of the things that really struck me was talking about open source, the history of open source. It started because of a need to license existing technologies in a cheaper way. But then really the point that was made is that open source taught tech how to collaborate and then tech taught the world how to collaborate because it really was the model for what we're seeing with crowdsourcing solutions to problems facing in education, climate change, the developing world. So I think that that is really something that Red Hat has done really well in terms of highlighting how open source is attacking many of the world's most pressing problems. Yeah, Rebecca, I agree. We talked with Jim Whitehurst and watched him in the keynotes in previous days and talked about communities and innovation and how that works. And in a lot of tech conferences, it's like, okay, what are the business outcomes? And here it's, well, how are we helping the greater good? How are we helping education? It was great to see kids that are coding and doing some cool things. And they're like, oh yeah, I've done Java and all these other things. And the Red Hat guys were like, hey, can we go hire this seventh grader? Had the open source hardware initiative that they were talking about and how they can do that, everything from healthcare to get a device that used to be $10,000 to be able to put together the genome is I can buy it on Amazon for, what was it, like six, seven, $100 and put it together myself. So open source and hardware is something we've been keeping an eye on. We've been at the open compute project event which Facebook launched, but these other initiatives, they had, it was funny, she said, there's the internet of things and they have the thing called the thing that you could tie into other pieces. There was another one that weaved this into fabric and we can censor and do that. We know healthcare, of course, lots of open source initiatives. So lots of places where open source communities and projects are helping proliferate and make greater good and make the world a greater place, flattening the world in many cases too. So it was exciting to see. And the woman from the open source association, she made this great point and she wasn't trying to be flipped but she said, one of our questions is, are you emotionally ready to be part of this community? And I thought that that was so interesting because it is such a different perspective, particularly from the product side where this is my IP, this is our idea, this is our lifeblood and this is how we're going to make money. But this idea of no, you need to be willing to share, you need to be willing to be copied and this is about how we build ideas and build the next great things. Yeah, if you look at the history of the internet, there was always, right, is this something I just share information or do we build collaboration? Back to all the old bulletin board days through the homebrew computing clubs, some of the great progress that we've made in technology and then technology enabling beyond have been because we can work in a group, we can build on what everyone else has done, that's always how science is done and open source is just trying to take us to the next level. Right, right, right. And in terms of one of the last things that they featured in the keynote was what's going on at the MIT Media Lab, changing the face of agriculture and how they are coding climate and how they are coding plant nutrition and really, there's just going to have such a big change and how we consume as food and how where food is grown, the nutrients we derive from fruit. I was really blown away by the fact that the average apple we eat in the grocery store has been around for 14 months. Ew, ew. So, I mean, just exciting what they're doing. Yeah, absolutely right. If we can help make sure people get clean water, make sure people have availability of food, shorten those cycles, the amount of information, data, the whole farm to table initiative, a lot of times data is involved with that. It's not necessarily just the stuff that's grown on the roof next door or in the farm, a block away. I looked at local food chain that's everywhere is like Chipotle. They use data to be able to work with local farmers, get what they can, try to help change some of the culture pieces to bring that in. And then they ended up the keynote talking more about the innovation award winners. You and I have had the chance to interview a bunch of them at the program I really like in talking to some of the Red Hatters. There actually was some focus to work with, you know, talk to governments, talk to a lot of internationals because when they started the program a few years ago, it started out very US centric. So they said, yeah, it was actually, it's not, it was a little bit coincidence that this year it's all international except for Rackspace. But it's, you know, we should be blind when we think about who has great ideas and good innovation. And, you know, at this conference, I bumped into a lot of people internationally, talked to a few people coming back from the Red Sox game and it was like, how was it? And they were like, oh, I got a hot dog and I understood this, but that whole ball and things flying around and, you know, I don't get it and things like that. So they're learning about international code but also baseball. So this is- Yeah, what's your take on the global community that you've seen at the show this week? Well, I mean, as you said, there are representatives from 70 countries here. So this really does feel like the United Nations of open source. I think what is fascinating is that we're here in the States and so we think about these hot beds of technological innovation. We're here in Boston, of course, there's Silicon Valley, then there are North Carolina, where Red Hat's based, Atlanta, Austin, all Seattle, of course. So all these places where we see so much innovation and technological progress taking place here in the States. And so it can be easy to forget that there are also pockets all over Europe, all over South America, in Africa doing cool things with technology. And I think that that is also, when we get back to one of the sort of the sub-themes of this conference, I mean, it's not a sub-theme, it is the theme about how we work today, how we share ideas, how we collaborate, and how we manage and inspire people to do their best work. I think that that is what I'd like to dig into a little today if we can and see how it is different in these various countries. This show, what I like is when it's 13th year of the show, it started out going to a few locations now. It's very stable. Next year, they'll be back in San Francisco. The year after, they'll be back here in Boston. They've got the new Boston office opening up within walking distance of where we are. Here, GE is opening up their big building. I just heard there's like, lots of startups when I've been walking around the area every time I come down to the Zeeport District, it's like, wow, look at all the tech. It's like log means right down the road. There's this hot little storage company called Wasabi that's like two blocks away, really excited, and one last thing back on the international piece, next week's OpenStack Summit, and I'll be here doing the cube, and some of the feedback I've been getting this week, it's like, look, the misperception on OpenStack, one of the reasons why people are like, oh, the project's floundering and it's not doing great is because the two big use case, one is the telecommunication space, which is a small segment of the global population, and two, it's gaining a lot of traction in Europe and in Asia, whereas in North America, public cloud has kind of pushed it aside a little bit, so unfortunately the global tech press tends to be very much, oh wait, if it's 75% adoption in North America, that's what we expect, if it's 75% overseas, it's not happening, so. It's kind of interesting. Right, and that myopia is really a problem because these are the trends that are shaping our future. So today I'm also going to be talking to the women and tech winners, that's very exciting. One of the women was talking about how she got her idea, or really her idea became more formulated and more crystallized at the Grace Hopper Conference. We of course have a great partnership with the Grace Hopper Conference, so I'm excited to talk to her more about that today too. Yeah, good lineup. We have a few more partners, another customer, EZRAG who did the keynote yesterday, looking forward to digging in, kind of wrapping up all of this, and Rebecca, it's been fun doing it with you today. I am with you, and may the fourth be with you. And with you. Thank you, we'll have more today later from the Red Hat Summit here in Boston. I'm Rebecca Knight for Stu Miniman.