Bangalore: Open Source giants, Red Hat recently celebrated their 10^th anniversary of its top notch venture, The Red Hat Enterprise Linux. The company who has been credited as the first to launch open source business software is also the front runner in development of open source systems. And now the company also has revealed that India’s contribution in the development has helped the firm to meet with the goals much faster than they expected.

Red Hat also made a groundbreaking announcement that they are thinking about launching two “Engineers Center of Excellence” in India. To be specific, one in Pune and the other in Bangalore. So what’s new? The CoE in Pune is going to be Red Hat's largest engineering facility outside of North America at 50,000 sq ft.

“India is central to our global goals. Besides playing a key role in our R&D operations, our entire product line is supported from India. We have grown here exponentially, and as we add people globally, our operations in India will grow proportionally,” states Paul Cormier, president, Products and Technologies, Red Hat.

Red Hat is extremely proud of India’s talent as they have already tasted success from India software development field. Red Hat last year acquired Gluster, which is an open storage company based in Bangalore , who helped to publicize Red Hat’s open source for cloud computing platform. According to Evans Data's Global Developer Population and Demographic Survey that was conducted in 2011, by 2015 India will surpass the United States with more than 3.5 million professional software developers.