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Red Hat Continues Middleware Industry Momentum

Raleigh, N.C. - May 8, 2008 - Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that JBoss Enterprise Middleware solutions have been recognized in two recent analyst reports. Independent technology analyst firm Forrester Research has included JBoss Enterprise Middleware solutions in its latest report on the application server marketplace. JBoss was included in Forrester's April 25, 2008 "Application Server Quality: Review Your Assumptions" report, which surveyed application development professionals to determine their perceptions regarding the quality of available application servers. Red Hat was also included in recent research by Gartner, Inc., which positioned the company for the third time in the Leader's Quadrant for its Magic Quadrant report on the enterprise application server marketplace.

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Red Hat Launches JBoss Operations Network 2.0 to Enhance Enterprise Middleware Manageability

Raleigh, N.C. - May 6, 2008 - Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, announced today the release of JBoss Operations Network (ON) 2.0, an integrated middleware management platform that simplifies application development, testing, deployment and monitoring. The release of JBoss ON 2.0 represents continued momentum for the Enterprise Acceleration initiative announced earlier this year, which is aimed at fostering adoption of JBoss Enterprise Middleware by increasing its capabilities for large-scale enterprise use. Available in modular format, JBoss ON 2.0 provides organizations with an end-to-end application management solution to coordinate the many stages of the application lifecycle and improve operational efficiency through a single integrated tool.

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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Delivers Record-Setting Performance Results with Reuters Market Data System (RMDS)

Raleigh, N.C. - April 23, 2008 - Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.1, in combination with Reuters Market Data System (RMDS 6.0), IBM BladeCenter H and 10 Gigabit Ethernet technology from Blade Network Technologies and Chelsio Communications, delivers record-breaking performance results that meet key critical demands of the financial services industry. Together, the combination provides both the lowest mean latency and lowest standard deviation of latency ever reported with RMDS.

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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Delivers Dramatic Virtualization Performance with HP Server and AMD Processor Technologies

Raleigh, N.C. - April 22, 2008 - Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, in collaboration with HP (NYSE: HPQ) and AMD (NYSE: AMD), today announced continued delivery of industry-leading virtualization capabilities offered through Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Customers are now able to achieve significant performance gains by coupling new high-performance device drivers with the features provided by Quad-Core AMD Opteron^TM processors, available with HP ProLiant DL585 G5 storage servers.

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Red Hat Announces the Second Annual Red Hat Innovation Awards

Raleigh, N.C. - April 1, 2008 - Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced the launch of the second annual Red Hat Innovation Awards, designed to honor the creative use of Red Hat solutions by customers, partners and the community. The Innovation Awards will recognize six category winners and one Innovator of the Year at the Red Hat Summit in Boston, Mass. taking place June 18-20, 2008.

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Red Hat Reports Fiscal Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2008 Results

Raleigh, N.C. - March 27, 2008 - Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced financial results for its fiscal fourth quarter and fiscal year ended February 29, 2008.

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Latin American Online Retailer Relies on Red Hat and JBoss Solutions

Raleigh, N.C. - March 25, 2008 - Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that deRemate.com, a leading online trade community with presence in Argentina, Chile, Colombia and Mexico, has migrated to Red Hat and JBoss solutions to create an in-house-controlled portal to enable the payment of purchases completed through the company's online retail sites throughout the region. Using Red Hat Enterprise Linux and JBoss Enterprise Application Platform on Dell PowerEdge hardware, the company has achieved cost savings, reliability, ease of implementation and scalability.

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Red Hat Builds on the JBoss Enterprise Acceleration Initiative with Acquisition of Amentra

Raleigh, N.C. - March 13, 2008 - Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced the acquisition of Amentra, a provider of systems integration services for SOA, business process management, systems development and enterprise data solutions. Amentra has vast technology and product expertise, including with JBoss middleware, as well as a mentoring approach to consulting assignments. The acquisition of Amentra provides a solution-oriented depth to the JBoss middleware business. Amentra will operate as an independent Red Hat company.

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Red Hat Announces Keynote Presenters for Red Hat Summit 2008 in Boston

Raleigh, N.C. - March 11, 2008 - Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that Joel Cohen, writer and co-executive producer for The Simpsons, and John Halamka, MD, MS, CIO of Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, will keynote at the fourth-annual Red Hat Summit, taking place June 18-20, 2008 in Boston, Mass. In addition, keynote speeches will be delivered by Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst and Red Hat CTO Brian Stevens.

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Florida Hospital Enhances IT Performance and Patient Care with Red Hat Solutions

Raleigh, N.C. - March 10, 2008 - Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that Florida Hospital, the largest hospital in the state of Florida, providing care to over one million patients per year, relies on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, Red Hat Global File System, Red Hat Cluster Suite and Red Hat Network to maintain reliable disaster-recovery systems that protect and maintain critical patient information.

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Red Hat Announces Key New Appointments to its Open Source Licensing & Intellectual Property Law Team

Raleigh, N.C. - March 5, 2008 - Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced the appointment of Rob Tiller, as Vice President and Assistant General Counsel, and Richard Fontana, as Open Source Licensing and Patent Counsel.

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Global IT Services Giant CSC Standardizes Nordic Linux Hosting Services on Red Hat Solutions

Raleigh, N.C. - February 20, 2008 - Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that the Nordic operations of Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC), a leading global information technology (IT) services company, has standardized its mid-range Nordic Linux IT Infrastructure Outsourcing Services on Red Hat Enterprise Linux in response to an increasing demand for hosted Linux services in the Nordic region. CSC has also implemented the Red Hat Network Satellite Server systems management platform for a unified and centralized management, administration and provisioning model for its Linux systems.

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