Red Hat chief executive Matthew Szulik this morning kicked off the second edition of the Red Hat summit.

Where Red Hat last year in New Orleans focused on its software stack and middleware products, the focus this year in Nashville appears to have shifted back to developers.

31 May 2006

The company during Szulik's keynote presentation unveiled several new open source projects to improve code quality and allow for faster testing.

The big picture of Szulik's presentation is a focus on transparency and open content. Red Hat has always positioned itself as the true commercial steward of the open source community.

But especially after Red Hat made a very old school capitalistic move by acquiring Jboss for $420m, the firm needed to reaffirm its commitment to open source and the "democratized content" ideals behind it.

Szulik did just that.

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