Pakistan Software Export Board (PSEB) recently concluded free-of-cost 9-day Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) training program for thirty IT professionals of leading public and private IT companies in Islamabad, Lahore and Karachi. RHCE proves an individual’s ability to configure networking services and security on servers running a Red Hat operating system. The training was conducted in one of PSEB’s project Open Source Resource Center (OSRC), aimed to promote use of open source in IT industry.

Conducted simultaneously in the three cities from 18-27 August 2008, the OSRC collaborated with Techno-Ed (Pvt.) Limited, a Red Hat International-recommended local partner. Techno-Ed was the only authorized international partner of Red Hat International in Pakistan when the program was initiated. The participants will be certified after passing the five-and-a-half-hour hands-on RHCE exam in October 2008 for which international invigilators will be visiting Pakistan soon.

This training program aimed to convince companies, public/private organizations, institutes and SMEs to migrate to a more cost-effective open source working environment. The target audience included any industry’s experienced IT personnel, network and system administrators, IT managers, telephone company/network engineers, IT consultants serving the IT market, and experienced professionals working in a Linux/UNIX environment with IT companies in Pakistan.

“There are only handful certified local professionals in this unique yet demanded area. Such trainings aim to build capacity in the growing ICT sector. PSEB aims to conduct more of similar trainings in future to provide local sector with the international technical expertise.” PSEB official said in a statement issued here.

Ten experienced professionals from each of city were selected from the pool of applicants after careful scrutiny. The trainees were from leading public and private companies such as Air Weapons Complex, Alcatel-Lucent Pakistan, Crest Garments, Higher Education Commission, Infotech, Jaffer Brothers (Pvt.) Limited,  Mehran University of Engineering and Technology, Micronet Broadband (Pvt.) Limited, Ministry of Defense, Ministry of Information Technology, Muslim Commercial Bank Limited, National Defense College, Netsoft Solutions, Oil and Gas Development Company Limited, Pakistan Bait-ul-Maal, and Worldcall Telecomm.

PSEB is a Government agency mandated to promote Pakistan’s IT Industry, including software, IT enabled services, hardware and call centers locally and globally. PSEB has been facilitating the IT Industry through its programs in Human Capital, Office Space, Marketing, Company Capability Development, Telecom Bandwidth, Industry Finance, Public Policy, Strategy & Research, and Facilitation.

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