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Information Technology News Red Hat expands Australian presence with new regional HQ
Information Technology News Red Hat expands Australian presence with new regional HQ | Red Hat expands Australian presence with new regional HQ |
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| by Stephen Withers | |
| Tuesday, 19 August 2008 | |
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In addition to customer support, activities at the centre include software research and development, product engineering, project management and software engineering. In particular, Brisbane is home to Red Hat's core graphics engineering team and the company's main translation team, which handles localisation for 13 languages including German, French, Italian, Korean, Japanese, Mandarin, Cantonese and Indonesian. What brought the company to Brisbane? "A grant from the Queensland Government was a significant factor in establishing our Brisbane presence, and a study by KPMG had also recognised the city near the top of the list for IT competitiveness. Brisbane also offers a promising talent pool of quality, multi-lingual graduates and 'upstream' open source community representatives," said Paul Gampe, Red Hat's vice president, engineering services and operations. That talent pool is fostered by Red Hat's sponsorship of Honours research students at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) and a research collaboration with QUT looking into open source localisation. Red Hat's new premises were officially opened today by the Queensland Minister for Tourism, Regional Development and Industry, Desley Boyle.
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