#76: Tallest Guys in the Room

This week, Dave and Gunnar talk about the history of Red Hat with Brian Mikkelsen, head of DOD sales, elder statesman, and tall guy.

• JonAS was our first foray into J2EE application servers, but nobody remembers that.
• Beer and a culture of sharing.
• Brian’s 5 Pillars: RHEL, RHEV, JBoss, Storage and Cloud
• The original team: Nathan Jones, Brian Mikkelsen, Chris Runge, Wayne Rhone, Mary Beekman. Anyone remember Jeff Kidwell?
• The infamous memo-list.
• A baby Spot was Brian’s first sales engineer, even before he could drink.
• The transition from rip-and-replace to innovator.
• “Where the STIG scripts at?” From Justin to OpenSCAP.
• General Justice and FBCB2, the “Blue Force Tracker“.
• Want to work for Brian? Hit him up.