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Episode Synopsis
This week, Dave and Gunnar talk about the history of Red Hat with Brian Mikkelsen, head of DOD sales, elder statesman, and tall guy.
JonAS was our first foray into J2EE application servers, but nobody remembers that.
Beer and a culture of sharing.
Brian’s 5 Pillars: RHEL, RHEV, JBoss, Storage and Cloud
The original team: Nathan Jones, Brian Mikkelsen, Chris Runge, Wayne Rhone, Mary Beekman. Anyone remember Jeff Kidwell?
The infamous memo-list.
A baby Spot was Brian’s first sales engineer, even before he could drink.
The transition from rip-and-replace to innovator.
“Where the STIG scripts at?” From Justin to OpenSCAP.
General Justice and FBCB2, the “Blue Force Tracker“.
Want to work for Brian? Hit him up.
JonAS was our first foray into J2EE application servers, but nobody remembers that.
Beer and a culture of sharing.
Brian’s 5 Pillars: RHEL, RHEV, JBoss, Storage and Cloud
The original team: Nathan Jones, Brian Mikkelsen, Chris Runge, Wayne Rhone, Mary Beekman. Anyone remember Jeff Kidwell?
The infamous memo-list.
A baby Spot was Brian’s first sales engineer, even before he could drink.
The transition from rip-and-replace to innovator.
“Where the STIG scripts at?” From Justin to OpenSCAP.
General Justice and FBCB2, the “Blue Force Tracker“.
Want to work for Brian? Hit him up.
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