Red Hat continues global expansion with first regional offices in Latin America

Red Hat (NASDAQ: RHAT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions to the enterprise, today announced the opening of South American offices through the acquisition of two local operations of its Master Distributor. With Red Hat Brazil based in Sao Paulo and Red Hat Argentina in Buenos Aires, the company now has a strong, direct corporate presence in Latin America to provide regional support, training and sales activities, as well as localized offerings.

“These new operations in Brazil and Argentina deliver on Red Hat’s commitment to continued global expansion into international markets,” said Matthew Szulik, chairman and CEO, Red Hat. “There is a tremendous opportunity in Latin America where the public and private sectors are rapidly adopting open source technologies. We are thrilled to now have a direct presence in the market to both support the local open source communities and to help drive further momentum of open source adoption by customers and partners.”

Julian Somodi, who has been a dedicated Red Hat partner for all of South America for almost two years, will now assume the role of General Manager for Red Hat South America. Somodi brings more than 20 years of technology experience to Red Hat and extensive experience in the region, working with companies such as Oracle and Apple Computer in the past.

Red Hat Brazil and Red Hat Argentina now provide greater training, administrative and sales support to customers in the region. In addition, two regional support centers, one in Buenos Aires and the other in Sao Paulo, provide integral customer service and broad technical support to the region.

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