Red Hat hires executive to sell to governments

(Caught this one in another list this morning - Thanks Glen)

http://newsobserver.com/business/story/2072641p-1988738c.html

"Red Hat will announce today the hire of a new executive to help the
 Linux company sell its wares to local, state, national and foreign
 governments."

Press release: 
http://www.redhat.com/about/presscenter/2003/press_rabon.html



  I am wondering if Tom Rabon will have a team under him, and whether any 
of them will be local to each nation-state.   I am wondering as I would 
hope that anyone in Canada would get quickly connected to the GOSLING 
Community  http://www.goslingcommunity.org/

  Does anyone have better contacts with RedHat to ensure that Tom (and 
hopefully his team) are well connected to the existing community 
movements?



Note on lists this is sent to (to advertise in each)

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  The GOSLING Community has been advertising this so far as the best place 
  to go to join a publicly available, publicly archived list on the topic 
  of "Getting Open Source Logis INto Governments" (GOSLING) in Canada.

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  "Governments around the world are considering or selecting Linux as a 
   cost-effective and secure operating system. In this list, we encourage 
   posts about technical and political questions as well as success 
   stories."

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