The IT industry has exploded in Cebu City over the last six years, making it the fourth most attractive emerging city in the world for business process outsourcing. CEDF-IT says that in 2001 Cebu City had 850 software developers with 7,000 employees and virtually no call centers. The city now has 5,000 software developers employing more than 20,000 people.
Bonifacio Belen, president of CEDF-IT, says, "I believe you can trace the excellent growth of Cebu City's IT industry to the cooperation between academia and the industry. Many companies have been teaching their IT skills to universities. With the cooperation and help of companies like MyLinuxSupport, we're able to position to support the explosion of the open source market."
Vince Corning, CEO of MyLinuxSupport, says that the Philippines, the world's eighth largest open source community, can establish itself as one of the top open-source call centers both locally and internationally. "A highly-educated, English-speaking population with an excellent broadband network, makes Cebu an ideal place to provide Linux and other open-source services worldwide. When you pick up your phone and ask for open source and Linux technical support, Cebu City will answer your call."
MyLinuxSupport seeks to have more than one thousand engineers providing support for Linux and other open-source applications 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
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