Welcome to Tech Stuff, a production of I Heart Radio's How Stuff

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Hey there and welcome to this special bonus sponsored episode of

tech stuff I'm Jonathan Strickland I'm an executive producer with how

stuff works and I heart radio and I love all things tech and back in July 2019 IBM completed its acquisition

of the company Red Hat famed for its work in open source software. The companies invited me out to Red Hat Headquarters, which

does in fact have a big red hat on it, to talk about why the companies made this move, how they plan to work together,

and ultimately what does this mean for all of us?

And so in this episode you're going to hear sections of an interview I did with IBM's Steve Robinson and

Red Hat's Ashish Badani. And I'll be popping in and out to give a bit more context and explanation.

But first, I want to set the stage a bit. Now we're mainly going to talk

about cloud computing and open source software in this conversation, and the reason that this is a big deal is that more companies are putting more of their operations on the cloud.

And there are a lot of different reasons to do this. One is to make sure that the services they provide are available whenever and wherever the end user

needs them, whether the end user is someone else in the company, a different company, or a consumer

like you or me.

Another reason is to maximize resources.

And there are tons of other reasons besides those

that companies do this.

What about the average user? You know I don't run a global

company with worldwide service so why do I care about all this? Well for me it's about

the utility and availability of the apps I run on all these different

devices, whether it's a computer or a mobile phone, a tablet, whatever it might be.

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