Red Hat Partnership Launch

Wednesday, Feb 13, 2002, 12:00 PM

The Philippines is now a major training hub for Red Hat. In a formal partnership launch at the Edsa Shangri-La today, Liam Mulhall (Regional Manager of Red Hat GLS, Asia Pacific) said that "This is really in line with one of our priorities in the Asia Pacific region, which is to increase Red Hat Certified Engineers in the Philippines and in other Southeast Asian countries. Bluepoint has the ability, skills and geographical coverage to assist us in achieving our long term strategy for the Philippines."

Bluepoint has been appointed as Red Hat's training partner in the Philippines, allowing it to conduct a wide range of training courses designed for all levels of Linux users: Introduction to Red Hat Linux (RH033); Red Hat Linux System Administration (RH133); Red Hat Linux Networking and Security Administration (RH253); the Red Hat Certified Engineer course (RH300); and the Red Hat Certified Engineer exam (RH302).

Check out Red Hat's official press release and the February 18, 2002 article by Computerworld Philippines Staff Writer Jennifer Simes for more information.

INVOCATION: PRAYER ON THE OCCASION OF THE LAUNCHING BY BLUEPOINT OF RED HAT AND ITS RHCE PROGRAMS

ALMIGHTY, LOVING GOD:

We come to You at this morning hour knowing that without Your guidance, we cannot achieve what we seek to accomplish today. Many of us do not know how to express the deepest longings in our hearts but we know how much we miss when we fail to bring to You in prayer our hopes and fears, our plans and expectations. Forgive us, O Lord, for the pride and the presumption that makes us continue to manage our own affairs, to the exhaustion of mind and body and spirit.

You have created us in your image and we are grateful to You for the creation of our hands and minds. We have developed all kinds of technology that make life on earth more humane, useful, and fulfilling - but we have also used technology to degrade and destroy one another. We build churches and towering edifices - but with our ingenuity and resourcefulness, we also wreck them and wipe them out. We can be like angels, on the one hand, and then descend to the level of beasts, on the other. We are a strange paradox of goodness and evil.

Lord, help us to understand ourselves. We pray for some pattern of consistency in our relations with You and with one another. Teach us how to maintain life on an even keel, so that with a balanced life of faith and trust in You, we may love and trust one another.

We ask for Your blessings on the public launching today of Red Hat and its programs, so that with Your guidance, those in charge of Bluepoint may contribute to the development of a free, open, just and compassionate society in this part of our world, accountable to You and to our people. In Jesus' name, Amen.

Jovito R. Salonga
Bluepoint Institute of Higher Technology Foundation
13 February 2002