Ask any computing industry expert and they'll tell you open source computing is the wave of the future. Unfortunately, there are now more jobs demanding open source skills than there are qualified applicants to fill them. The briefing will be held in the College of Engineering's Student Computing Center Laboratory in room 100 Leazar Hall.
Media coverage is invited.
Among the initiatives to be announced is the recent collaboration between IBM and NC State to develop open source technology on mainframe computers. Also, Red Hat will announce it is partnering with NC State to advance the application of open source software in higher education by working with the College of Engineering to seamlessly integrate the Linux open source operating system into the college's Eos academic computing environment. State's Information Technology Division has adopted open source as a strategic philosophy for academic computing on campus. Following the briefing, a ceremony to announce the initiatives will be held at 3 p.m. in the Alumni Conference Room. Chancellor Marye Anne Fox, Dr. Nino Masnari , dean of the College of Engineering, and other NC State, Red Hat and IBM administrators will take part in the ceremony and be available for interviews.