[CLUE-Talk] Red Hat Opens Major Engineering and R&D Facility in Massachusetts

[Mike Benavides]

I Thought the group would like to know.  New Linux jobs in Mass.

Mike Benavides

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>       BW)(NC-RED-HAT)(RHAT) Red Hat Opens Major Engineering and R&D
>       Facility in Massachusetts; Corporate Presence and 50 New Jobs
>       for the Bay State; Office to Focus on Enterprise Computing Efforts
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>     Business/Technology Editors
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>     RALEIGH, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 9, 2002--Red Hat, Inc. 
> (Nasdaq:RHAT), the world's premier open source and Linux provider, 
> today announced that it has opened an engineering and research & 
> development office in Westford, Massachusetts. The new office is 
> located at 3 LAN Drive in Westford.
>     Tapping into the Northeast's high-tech corridor, Red Hat's new 
> facility will house 50 new jobs, primarily in engineering. Personnel 
> came to Red Hat from Boston-area companies that have deep experience 
> in enterprise-level operating systems and other software. The facility 
> will work on developing high-performance computing products, enhanced 
> enterprise capabilities for Red Hat's line of Advanced Server 
> products, 64-bit technologies and other projects as part of Red Hat's 
> expanding efforts in open source enterprise computing.
>     "The Boston area is unusually strong in software engineering 
> skills for enterprise computing. Many of the engineers joining our new 
> Boston facility played an important part in developing such 
> technologies as multiprocessing, fault-tolerance, 64-bit computing and 
> supercomputers," said Paul Cormier, executive vice president of 
> engineering at Red Hat. "Now that Red Hat Linux has become one of the 
> most pervasive server operating systems, our expanded Massachusetts 
> engineering group will lead the industry in continually enhancing open 
> source computing with the most important enterprise capabilities."