CUNY, Red Hat, and Intel team up

CUNY, Red Hat and Intel team up on tech lab – Crain’s New York Business

New York City’s tech geeks have a new playground. The City University of New York and tech giants Red Hat Inc. and Intel on Thursday morning will unveil the New York City Open Source Solutions Lab, the first such facility in town.

The center, located at the CUNY Graduate Center’s Institute of Software Design and Development in midtown Manhattan, is a state of the art facility where information technology professionals employed by the city government and other public agencies can develop cost-effective and flexible technology for city programs and services. The lab’s hardware and software was donated by Red Hat and Intel. CUNY will train students to help out with work being conducted at the lab. The cost to build the lab was not disclosed.

“The new lab is important to the city because open source is a trend,” said Ted Brown, the executive director of the CUNY Institute for Software Design and Development. “There is so much software that is being developed and will be developed that people should be properly trained to use it and made aware of it.”