I guess that most of us have all but forgotten about Brazil when it comes to Linux and open source software. As it turns out, Red Hat has their eye straight on Linux in the South American country.

The Raleigh, N.C., software maker acquired two offices — one in Brazil and another in Argentina — from its South American “master distributor.” Julian Somodi, who ran the offices, becomes general manager for Red Hat South America.

“We are an emerging market, and we need to have a low-cost, high-power system,” he said. “Linux is the solution.”
Though South America is a small technology market compared with the U.S. and Europe, it’s growing fast.

Brazil is one of four BRIC countries — along with Russia, India and China — that many tech executives and economists expect will fuel the bulk of tech spending growth in coming years…. Source: Investor’s Business Daily

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