CEOLive.com Is Now Featuring In-Depth Interviews With the CEO of Red Hat, COO of Harrah's and Syndicated Talk Show Host Larry Elder.Business Editors LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 5, 2001 CEOLive.com is now featuring in-depth interviews with Matthew Szulik Matthew J. Szulik - Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and President of Red Hat, leader of some other technology companies, such as Interleaf and MapInfo for more than 20 years. , CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Red Hat Inc. (Nasdaq:RHAT RHAT Red Hat (stock symbol) RHAT Rainwater Harvesting Association of Tanzania RHAT Register Hba Attributes ); Gary Loveman, COO of Harrah's Entertainment Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :HET); and syndicated talk show host Larry Elder. During the interviews, Szulik discussed the phenomenal growth of the open platform operating system, Linux, IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , and the huge level of enterprise investment that is being made; Loveman discussed the customer economy, the company's new Total Rewards Program and the importance of building customer loyalty; and Elder discussed the changing workplace, today's big employment issues, diversity and what to do if you feel like you're being mistreated at work. According to Szulik, the marketplace for Linux is really gaining momentum. "When you look at some of the statistical industry numbers, IDC now has ranked Linux as the second leading server operating system See network operating system. in the world, second only to Microsoft," said Szulik. "Secondly, the historical Unix operating system Noun 1. UNIX operating system - trademark for a powerful operating system UNIX, UNIX system operating system, OS - (computer science) software that controls the execution of computer programs and may provide various services is increasingly giving way to Linux as an operating system." Szulik also discussed how the building and perfection of Linux is not just a money issue: "Most importantly, the products perform. When you have hundreds of thousands of eyeballs that are evaluating the technology, making improvements to it continuously, and you have a vendor like Red Hat that's standing behind that and continuing to contribute and improve that intellectual property and putting it back into the public domain for improvement, the customer is going to benefit with a lower priced product and a better performing product." This interview and many others are available free online in RealAudio and text at http://www.ceolive.com. To access Matthew Szulik's interview directly, visit http://www.ceolive.com/interviews/szulikm.html. To access Gary Loveman's interview directly, visit http://www.ceolive.com/interviews/lovemang.html. To access Larry Elder's interview directly, visit http://www.ceolive.com/interviews/elderl.html. About CEOLive.com CEOLive.com is an online audio business magazine that features interviews with leaders from the worlds of business and technology. The company is a wholly owned subsidiary Wholly Owned Subsidiary A subsidiary whose parent company owns 100% of its common stock. Notes: In other words, the parent company owns the company outright and there are no minority owners. of Sky Radio Network Inc., which produces www.ITRadioNetwork.com, radio programs for online magazines, a network of corporate Web sites and several major airline carriers. |
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