This brief clip, cut from a longer conversation on OpenELA with Alan Clark from SUSE and Wim Coekaerts from Oracle, answers the most basic question about the association: what is it and why does it exist? The speaker explains that OpenELA grew out of the collaborative nature of open source, as CIQ, Oracle, and SUSE recognized they were solving similar problems and chose to leverage each other's work openly.
It is a quick primer for anyone hearing about OpenELA for the first time. The effort is about sharing work with the wider community and relying on the resilience of open source for a critical platform that customers depend on.
Key takeaways
- OpenELA came about through organizations solving similar problems choosing to collaborate rather than duplicate effort.
- CIQ, Oracle, and SUSE came together to leverage each other's work openly and share it with the wider open source community.
- The goal is to rely on the resilience and benefits of open source for a critical platform that users and customers depend on.
Questions this video answers
Why was OpenELA created?
OpenELA was formed when CIQ, Oracle, and SUSE recognized they were trying to solve similar problems around Enterprise Linux. Rather than work separately, they came together to leverage each other's efforts in an open, collaborative way and to share that work with the broader open source community, relying on the resilience of open source for a platform many depend on.
This video is part of the OpenELA playlist. Browse every CIQ video by product and topic.
Transcript
give us an overview of what even is this open Ela Greg sure so um open Ela really came to be just through the collaborative Nation nature of Open Source and organizations that are really trying to solve similar problems and um uh ciq Oracle and Susa all came together to see you know how do we how do we leverage each other's work in an open and collaborative way and and then share that and and collaborate further with the with the wider and generalized open source community and that was really the idea just just how do we um how do we rely on the the resilience and
all the benefits of open source for this critical platform that we the user base our customers and everyone in the community seems to rely on and uh and that was really kind of just the basic idea to start off with
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