Red Hat announced today in Beijing to establish Red Hat China Headquarters. Mattew Szulik, President and CEO of Red Hat, said in the establishment conference, Red Hat will be responsible for the entire large-China region's headquarters, and the company plans to hire 50 to 75 people within the next 12 months, as for China Headquarters The person in charge, Red Hat will be announced within 30 days.
Before the establishment of China Headquarters, the business of Red Hat in China is mainly responsible for the office of Hong Kong, China.
Mattew Szulik said, the reason why the current Headquarters is now established in China. The reasons are three: one, the Chinese government has expressed its strong support for open source software; its second, Linux matures in the technical market, so that users can fully meet users Demand; its third, China is based on a group of people who have been open to open source education.
It is reported that after the establishment of China Office, Red Hat will establish a full range of partnerships with the Chinese government, education, and enterprises, including not only technical support, but also investment. As one of important initiatives, Red Hat China Headquarters will open the Red Hat Academy program for students. Red Hat has established partnerships with Tsinghua University and Nanjing University to carry out this plan in China.
At the same time, Mattew Szulik said that Red Hat will work closely with Chinese software developers, investors, including the establishment of long-term strategic partnerships with domestic open source companies, and make the entire open source market. He emphasized that the concept of cooperation is the responsibility of the world's open source code and based on the cooperation between China's open source code company, not only includes technical cooperation, but also a large number of marketing.
It is also known that after the establishment of China Headquarters, Red Hat will focus on the development of e-government, finance, oil and gas, and telecommunications industry, and provide industry users with application solutions based on Red Hat enterprise Linux based on their needs.
Source: http://www.cnetnews.com.cn/news/
