{"id":4084,"date":"2008-06-10T18:40:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-10T16:40:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-06-10T18:40:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-10T16:40:00","slug":"red-hat-opens-sa-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/4084-red-hat-opens-sa-office.html","title":{"rendered":"Red Hat opens SA office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The company&rsquo;s move to open a local office has been spurred on by strong demand for open source skills and methodologies, both in the public and private sector, Red Hat says.<\/p>\n<p>Paul Holt, EMEA regional director at Red Hat, says the move to bolster Red Hat&rsquo;s presence in SA has been a long time coming.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Red Hat has reached a stage in its lifecycle where it is ready to expand into emerging markets with an on-the-ground presence. Similarly, we believe the SA market has matured sufficiently for Red Hat to warrant a local investment,&quot; he explains. &quot;It was simply a matter of getting the timing right,&quot; Holt says.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Customers and partners are having to deal with a wider array of products and solutions from Red Hat than ever before,&quot; Holt says.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Red Hat has announced the establishment of an SA regional office and the appointment of IT industry veteran, Louis Seyffert, as country manager for the region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4084"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4084\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}