Red Hat opens office in Chennai

CHENNAI: Red Hat, provider of open source solutions, has announced the opening of its sales and support office in Chennai. This office will address the growing demand for Red Hat products and services in Tamil Nadu. The entire range of products and services will be available to customers on a local basis. The new office will support the existing Bangalore office. It will also provide support to the existing customer implementations in Tamil Nadu.

Speaking on the occasion, Javed Tapia, Director, Red Hat India said, "We started our office in Bangalore early this year to address the demand for our products and services in Southern India. Since then, we have seen an increasing trend in Linux usage and adoption in this part of the country.

The interest shown by Government and enterprises towards adoption of open source and Linux solutions have encouraged us to set up a second office in South." He further added. "India is a strategic market for Red Hat and this is the third office we have added in less than a year. We now have our presence in seven cities in India."

Red Hat's Open Source Architecture is built around choice. Open Source Architecture is Red Hat's Technology Strategy for extending the benefits of the open source model further up the software solution stack to the middleware, application, and management layers so open source benefits can be realized across the computing infrastructure.

Says Javed Tapia, " Red Hat continues to believe that choice is most valuable to the customer. Red Hat's strategy of driving an Open Source Architecture to the enterprise provides customers to have the freedom of choosing the best technologies to fit their organizations based on standards-based, open source code."