Re: [discuss] Red Hat hires executive to sell to governments

I'd recommend Michael Evans, VP Business Development
as the first point of contact for anyone interested.

Mike is a strong open source advocate and has always
been very approachable and professional, so I'm sure
he'd be pleased to help accelerate the success that
Tom can achieve by these connections.

His email address is [email protected]

You're welcome to say I've referred you to him for
this follow-up.

--
Geoff Davidson, CEO
PostgreSQL, Inc.

> Russell McOrmond wrote:
> 
> (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)
> 
> CANadian OPENsource Education and Research <[email protected]>
>   More info: http://www.canopener.ca/mailman/listinfo/discuss
>   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.
> 
> [email protected]
>   More info: http://www.ssc.com/mailman/listinfo/gov-list
>   "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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