Research Triangle Park, NC (press release excerpt) — Red Hat today announced an initiative with North Carolina State University, to standardize their College of Engineering academic computing environment (Eos) on open source technologies. The initial deployment will feature Red Hat Linux on Dell Optiplex hardware and will expose thousands of College of Engineering students to open source software.

This initiative is a continuation of Red Hat's University Program, announced in June, to bring the benefits of open source software to educational facilities worldwide. The partnership with NC State's engineering department enables the swift transport of Eos to an open source Internet infrastructure and expand teaching and development resources, while giving engineering students ready access to state-of-the-art computing and development platforms.

“Forrester Research has projected that open source software will dominate the industry by 2004, just when today's freshmen are graduating. It is critical for us to help prepare them to be leaders in a world dominated by open source software,” said Thomas K. Miller III, Ph.D., Interim Vice Provost for Distance Education and Learning Technologies, North Carolina State University. Our collaborations with Red Hat not only provide our students with a powerful and affordable platform that ties seamlessly into our campus network, but also a platform with which they can experiment, learn, and innovate in the world of open source.”

 
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