Yesterday was the press conference - Red Hat announced the opening of representative offices in Russia and the appointment of the Director of Business Development in Russia and the CIS Sergey Bugrino (20 years at IBM). Actually it's all the dry residue in a series of speeches that lasted 1 hour 15 minutes. It was hard to even figure out whether the office or in Moscow, the new manager will lead the ' out ' (see. even my little post here:. That Red Hat will do in Russia?. ). At the session of the ' question and answer ' time, as usual, not enough (but it was perdusmotrena schedule - which in itself is not bad ). The general impression from the press conference was, that the company decided to open an office a week ago, in the order of the fire.
And now to think - for what she did and how it will work here. None of the presentation was not shown, about doing business in Russia - almost anything. ' Almost ', because they still had a slide, and the English language and not about Russia, but about the ' Warsaw bloc '.
The fact that there is such a company - Red Hat - I know for a long time. About her presence in Russia, I learned in September 2006, then in Moscow, it seems, first came to one of the leaders I interviewed him, as I remember - in the office of R-Style (. http://www. pcweek. ru / business / article / detail. php? ID = 73385. ). Two years later, here come the president of Red Hat, Jim Vaytherst, and then began communicating to the Ministry of Communications (even Shchegolev ) about open source software in federal government.
So far, Red Hat in the interests of Russia represented the company distributor VDEL, which is working in Central and Eastern Europe (former Warsaw Pact ', but without the GDR) from its headquarters in Brno. By the way, its founder -leader Milan Prohaska, too, at one time worked for IBM ( as Burgin ).
As far as I know, two years ago VDEL made an attempt to speed up work in Russia, while there was appointed chief Mikhail Kozlov, but a year later he resigned from the case, and about VDEL had not heard.
Why does the company opened a representative office in Russia - in general, it is clear. Why now, and in some haste? .
But seeing the abundance of former and present (it was a very funny speech by Dmitry Sosnovtseva, head of partner solutions, IBM, I was at the time of his speech for some reason he remembered a scene from ' Volga - Volga ...
Wikipedia ( English ) about this very briefly mentioned, but it seems to me that without the support of IBM ( probably not at the outset), there is clearly not done and can not do....
As for the prospects of Red Hat, it is clear that the company is on the rise. But as time goes on it will be harder (' there every step more exactly twice ' W. Vizbor ). That would still need to bear in mind that the Linux servers for a long time grew by ' otedaniya ' share of the older brother - Unix... All she could almost otela, will now be actively biting in Windows....
P. S. It was in ' Olympia - Penta '. There in the toilet the first time I saw such a crane 's design. I did it because of the design fotknul. I now realize that there is some kind of a relationship glubovaya.
