During the week of November 26, the Red Hat telco team had a series of meetings in Tokyo with the leading Japanese telcos. Okashita-san, responsible for business development in Japan, organized the logistics and included several folks from sales, marketing and engineering from the Tokyo office. Until this trip, I had no idea Red Hat has such a big office in Japan. The quality of the people in that office beat my expectations by a long shot. There was a lot of energy in the air. It was great to be part of it for a few days.
During our meetings, I learned a lot about the advancement and innovation created by the Japanese operators. Its no news that they have been world leaders in mobile technology for years. Still it was amazing to see their R&D labs first hand.
The engineers we met had the mentality found in US startups. The discussions were involved and technical. It was quite unusual scene for companies of such size. Even more exciting was the fact that these companies launched specialized open source departments focusing on OSS initiatives with the forward looking goal of introducing them to main product lines. NTT OSS for example in collaboration with NTT Labs have already identified specific areas of development and we were glad to help them.
Towards the end of our trip, the Red Hat business development team organized a media briefing. Following are some of the articles published after the event:
http://japan.zdnet.com/oss/story/0,3800075264,20362184,00.htm
http://enterprise.watch.impress.co.jp/cda/topic/2007/11/30/11755.html
http://www.atmarkit.co.jp/news/200712/03/redhat.html
http://japan.internet.com/linuxtoday/20071203/4.html
http://news.livedoor.com/article/detail/3410805/
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