in helping to foster a healthy commercial ecosystem around open source is bidirectional: Intel supports both upstream and downstream endeavors. By maintaining a neutral philosophy toward upstream developments, Intel contributes to projects in the true spirit of open source. Looking downstream, Intel helps drive open-source innovation into the commercial ecosystem by collaborating with leading partners to refine, harden, and stabilize solutions in a way that ensures that end customers ultimately benefit from Intel® technologies and advancements.
Open-source-based solutions, powered by Intel architecture, bring numerous benefits to customers, including next-generation technologies, proven reliability, high performance, a deep support network, and a well-supported developer environment. As enterprises have increasingly turned to open source, the need for support and services has become vital, and the support network around Intel architecture components is unparalleled.
The overall ecosystem also benefits from investments that Intel makes in open-source companies. Strategic investments in Red Hat, Black Duck, JBoss, Revolution Analytics, MySQL, WSO2, and others have helped move open-source-based solutions into the mainstream of the industry.
Through the vibrant, thriving ecosystem that exists around open source, remarkable business opportunities await and end customers benefit from a wealth of solutions that deliver amazing experiences.
“Members of the automotive ecosystem are collaborating on a next-generation infotainment platform, and operating system, for the car through the GENIVI alliance—and Intel is helping to nurture open-source technologies and companies, in working with ecosystems like GENIVI” - Tim Yeaton
President and CEO
Black Duck Software
“Intel’s early contributions around the engineering of Linux and open source—working with end customers to migrate applications from UNIX to Linux—has been very, very valuable to Red Hat. And our most recent partnership around developing the KVM technology that Red Hat includes in Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization is another core building block.”- Michael Evans
VP Business Development, Red Hat
“Intel partnered with MYSQL to help us identify bottlenecks in the code that we were able to break through. This gave us tremendous scalability and performance on Intel architecture, and made MYSQL powerful enough such that we were powering probably 450 of the top 500 Web sites in the world. We achieved performance levels that no one ever expected.”- Zack Urlocker
Chief Operating Officer, Zendesk
and Former EVP Products, MySQL
“The fact that Intel has been supportive of so many companies has had a significant impact on getting large-scale customers to change their mindset about open source; open source is really just a better and a different way of writing software and distributing it.”- Sanjiva Weerawarana
Founder, Chairman and CEO
WSO2, Inc.