Boston University Team-Up

Red Hat and Boston University are expanding their collaboration to fund research and education around open source projects, communities and hybrid cloud operations.

Red Hat is donating $552 million worth of software subscriptions to BU, while renewing and expanding a commitment of $20 million to support research and deepen collaboration with the school.

The combination of Red Hat’s knowledge in open source and hybrid cloud with BU’s expertise in combining research and technology will further help solve real-world industry challenges, the organizations said. Look for the partnership to lay the foundation for breakthroughs in cloud technologies and open source projects. It’s also poised to help build critical skills that the next wave of IT professionals will need.