help_outline INFRA Watch live: Focus on OpenShift and hybrid just part of the many storylines for Red Hat Summit on April 27-28 SHARE For Jim Whitehurst, becoming the chief executive of Red Hat Inc. in 2007 was like ordering a five-course meal and only receiving a couple of appetizers. He expected to find a customer list that represented the core global industries and biggest information technology consumers. Instead, it was financial institutions, some phone companies and not much else. “When I joined, our top customer list was great — all major banks and telcos,” Whitehurst described in a 2010 interview. “But where’s everybody else? Where are the big mainstream users of IT? That’s one of the key things that we worked on.”