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mhicks

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About mhicks

Matt Hicks is one of the founding members of the Red Hat OpenShift team. He has spent over a decade in software engineering with a variety of roles in development, operations, architecture and management. His real expertise is in bridging the gap between developing code and actually running it in production. An expert in IT and cloud-based architectures, he spends his time these days evolving OpenShift to harness the power of cloud and make developers more productive.

Recent public activity

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    Comment #3981682

    Red Hat is funding the free plan right now. One of the reasons we started the service this way was so that we would really understand cost control in the public cloud from the poin…

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    Comment #3977440

    Don't hesitate to give us feedback - good, bad and ugly. Email openshift@redhat.com or post on the forums and we'll get right on it. Around docs, we're trying to tune the primary l…

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    Comment #3977393

    Yeah, defaults are always tough to choose and we tend to default to what is in RHEL. That said, Ruby comes up a lot and we are actively working on a slick 1.9.x experience out of t…

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    Comment #3977342

    Well, we do provide a level of free hosting - trying to keep it meaningful but it's certainly not unlimited. We will offer pricing plans for expansion and we also allow people to m…

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    Comment #3977229

    Not sure where the second statement came from but if you can let me know the source, I can correct it. I can represent OpenShift fairly well. We will always have a free level of se…