|
|
|
|
|
|||
|
|||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 |
 |
|
|
|||
 |
Red Hat, the market leader in open source solutions, today announced the
opening of Red Hat Italy and Red Hat France. Red Hat's offices in Milan, Italy and
Cagnes sur Mer, South of France will deliver the company's award-winning Red
Hat Linux software, support and training services to its European enterprise
customers.
The opening of the Italian office follows Red Hat's recent acquisition of
Sistemi Research Laboratories, Italy's largest distributor of Red Hat Linux
software.
The office in Cagnes sur Mer, South of France, will deliver Red Hat software
and services to enterprise users in France and other French-speaking countries,
such as Northern Africa.
Red Hat has named Federico Musto to head up Red Hat Italy and Joel Bernier and
Bachar Kouatly as Business Development Directors for the Cagnes office. Musto
was formerly head of Sistemi Research Laboratories. Bernier was a pioneer in
distributing Linux to the French-speaking market in 1995 and also headed Red
Hat French distributor Logiciels du Soleil. For the last six years Kouatly has been
running an Internet company, Acticiel, which had experience of Linux tools.
Commenting on Red Hat Italy, Musto said: "The opening of this office in Italy
comes at a time when demand for Linux amongst businesses in the Italian
marketplace is rapidly increasing and we will now be able to provide our
customers with the entire range of Red Hat Linux solutions on a regional
basis."
Commenting on Red Hat France, Bernier says: "The opening of this office in
France comes at a time when fast growing enterprise businesses in Europe
require localised Linux solutions and service providers, as well as the freedom of open
source environments. We are very pleased to join such a recognised, open source
solution leader and to help deliver powerful Red Hat Linux solutions and
support to French-speaking companies."
The Italian and French offices, which will function as wholly-owned
subsidiaries of Red Hat, Inc., expand Red Hat's current distribution, service and
engineering partnerships in Europe. Red Hat's UK office and European headquarters are based
in Guildford, Surrey.
Colin Tenwick, vice president of Red Hat Europe, Middle East and Africa
comments: "The opening of these offices is in response to increasing demand for
open source solutions from the French and Italian markets and we are extremely
pleased to be able to offer these marketplaces a complete range of Red Hat
solutions and support."
Red Hat is the largest company in the world dedicated to providing open source
technology, information and services, offering the full spectrum of open source
software and support from enterprise deployments to embedded and handheld
platforms. End users worldwide benefit from the company's unmatched technical
expertise and a wide-array of industry partnerships with major computing
vendors like Compaq, Dell, IBM, Intel and Hewlett-Packard to support their
rapidly-growing adoption of open source solutions.
Open Source and Internet Momentum International Data Corp. (IDC) research
states that Linux was the fastest-growing server operating environment in 1998,
growing more than 190 percent in that year alone and capturing more than 15.8 percent
of the 4.4 million revenue shipment server operating systems market segment. IDC
also states that Red Hat Linux is by far the most popular distribution,
preferred by 68.7 percent of U.S. Linux users.
According to research firm NetCraft, Inc. (www.netcraft.com), 29 percent of all
public Web servers run on Linux, making Linux the most popular operating system
for public Web sites. Finally, IDC predicts that by 2002, there will be more
than 55 million handheld and notebook-style information appliance devices and
that by 2005, shipments of these appliances will exceed shipments of PCs.
About Red Hat, Inc.
Founded in 1994, Red Hat (NASDAQ:RHAT) is the market leader
in open source operating system (OS) software, services and information,
spanning powerful enterprise and Internet servers to next-generation devices
and pervasive computing platforms. Along with its award-winning open source Red Hat
Linux OS, Red Hat offers a full line of services, including telephone support,
on-site consulting, developer training, certification programmes and priority
access updates, making Red Hat a leading resource for knowledgeable,
innovative, mission-critical open source solutions.
Red Hat Linux was named InfoWorld's Product of the Year for four years in a
row, was given a productivity accolade in Software Development's Jolt Awards, was
named an environment/desktop finalist in the Ziff-Davis European Excellence
Awards, won the editor's choice awards from the Linux Journal and Australian
Personal Computing magazines, and won the 'Just Plain Cool' award from
Australian Personal Computing magazine.
At March's LinuxWorld Expo, more than 8,000 members of the Linux community
voted Red Hat a 'LinuxWorld Favorite'. Red Hat Linux recently won a Product
Excellence award from Software Development Magazine.
LINUX is a trademark of Linus Torvalds. RED HAT is a registered trademark of
Red Hat, Inc. UNIX is a registered trademark of The Open Group. All other names and
trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
For further information please contact
Fiona Phelps |
|
|
© 2001 Red Hat, Inc. All rights reserved. About Red Hat : Legal statement : Privacy statement : Y2K statement : Contact Red Hat |
