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Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst to visit Israel

Red Hat president and CEO Jim Whitehurst will make his first visit to Israel next week. He has been in his post since the beginning of the year. He will be a guest at the annual conference of Matrix IT Ltd. (TASE:MTRX), which represents Red Hat in Israel, and “Globes”.

Red Hat Inc. (NYSE: RHT) is a market leader of Linux systems, developing open code-based software for the enterprise market. Whitehurst, 40, is one of the more fascinating men in the contemporary software industry, and not only because of the company he heads. His background is not in high tech; his previous job was COO at Delta Airlines. His connection to high tech is from university he has a B.Sc. in Computer Science from Rice University in Houston. His appointment as CEO of Red Hat, which targets the enterprise market, may give hints about the company’s intentions to emphasize products that target end-users more than enterprises.

Source: globes.co.il