Lisa Alexander, the firm's human capital VP, talks about about its hiring strategies

Can you give us an idea of the trend for open source workers in today's economy?

Obviously, our organisation is worldwide right now. I have to say that of all the areas and different groups that we recruit for, I think our engineering organisation is probably the easiest sell for Red Hat. It is a place where, because of our reputation as producing the highest probably open source software, we find the most candidates that are excited about joining Red Hat.

By being one of the lead members of the open source community, we really had a robust and growing community of developers that we can draw from all the time. There is obviously an opportunity for us to submit the qualifications of these individuals [to customers]. They were all contributing prior to joining Red Hat.

Speaking of talent and finding top talent, not everybody has such an easy time doing that. Could you tell us about what are some of your biggest challenges in staffing?

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