[dundee] Red Hat funds cloud R&D centre at Newcastle University - 05/03/2010 - Computer Weekly

[Robert Ladyman]

Shame we can't get a similar thing in Dundee: mind you, Red Hat seem to be the 
company actually making a profit from Linux.

> On 6 March 2010 14:53, Robert Ladyman <it at file-away.co.uk> wrote:
> > http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2010/03/05/240516/Red-Hat-funds-cl
> >oud-
> > RampD-centre-at-Newcastle-University.htm<http://www.computerweekly.com/Ar
> >ticles/2010/03/05/240516/Red-Hat-funds-cloud-%0ARampD-centre-at-Newcastle-
> >University.htm>
> 
> This is great news for the United Kingdom, here is the Newcastle blurb:
> 
> http://www.ncl.ac.uk/press.office/press.release/item/global-computing-giant
> -joins-forces-with-newcastle-university
> 
> It all boils down to Linux clusters + Virtualisation + JBoss + computer
> security. With the the Teaching Open Source (TOS) & Professors Open Source
> Summer Experience (POSSE) really taking off around the world (Red Hat
> Initiated), especially in North America with long established Universities,
> we should see more collaboration between FOSS  projects and Universities.
> TOS is putting on talks at OSCON 2010, this is being organised by Mel Chua
> who is the educational spokesperson for Red Hat. Mel will be giving a talk
> which will be praiseworthy because she has a hearing impediment (deafness),
> Mel is also highly intelligent and a hard worker showing how people can
> overcome disability. Here is a video of Mel from her blog taking delivery
>  of laptops for her local school.
> 
> http://blog.melchua.com/2010/02/10/netbooks-have-arrived/
> 
> Gordon
> 
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