Red Hat’s telecoms numbers illustrate the importance of ICT convergence

Open source software vendor company Red Hat revealed in its recent Q4/FY earnings that telecoms was its top vertical.
To find out why this sector has become so prominent for a company more associated with enterprise Linux and middleware Telecoms.com spoke to Darrell Jordan-Smith, VP of global telecoms and ICT at Red Hat. He explained that while software is of increasing strategic importance to CSPs, they don’t consider enterprise software development to be a core competence and thus need o