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Worldwide IT curriculum to Lankans by Elmo Leonard Red Hat Incorporation USA, said to be the largest and most recognised provider of open sources technology in the world, has formed a training alliance with Informatics Institute of Technology (IIT), Colombo. The merger is expected to provide a worldwide IT curriculum to professionals and students in Sri Lanka. Red Hat is the creator of the 'Red Hat Linux' operating system. Its training courses have been carried out in India for the past two years. Red Hat India's Training Manager, Shankar Lyer, who was in Sri Lanka recently, told the media that the revolutionary Linux operating system was created in 1991, by then college student, Linus Torvalds, who wanted to create an operating system for his own use, based on UNIX. As the demand for Linux grew, Red Hat and other companies began selling a packaged version of the system, including documentation and its support. Red Hat India's Channels Manager, Amit Bhoraskar said that Red Hat Linux often found its way into server rooms because it was cheaper to deploy, but stayed because of its reputation as a stable, reliable operating system. Today, Linux had become the world's fastest growing server operating system, according to research firm, IDC. It continued to achieve widespread adoption among the largest enterprises in mission-critical roles. A Merril Lynch study had found that a third of CIOs plan to buy Linux systems this year. Another Merril Lynch study had found that a quarter of CIOs had said that Linux was strategic to their enterprise. IIT Consultant, Dr Kirthi Premadasa said: "Red Hat Linux is the fastest growing server-side operating system today, and it is making inroads on the desktop. Unlike proprietary operating systems, Linux can be installed and upgraded for free. This makes it attractive to businesses that do not have a high budget, but still want an excellent operating system". Dr Premadasa explained that many companies, large and small, prefer Linux because of its reliability. Linux could be run for months, even years, without having to be rebooted. Since the source code is open, bugs can be fixed quickly and easily without having to wait for proprietary vendors to issue fixes on a schedule that suits them more than customers. He said that due to the Linux reliability, most mail and web servers and a large number of database servers in Sri Lanka now use it. |
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