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Corporate Fact Sheet for Red Hat

Profile:

Red Hat, the world's leading open source and Linux provider, is headquartered in Raleigh, NC with satellite offices worldwide. Red Hat is leading Linux and open source solutions into the mainstream by making high-quality, low-cost technology accessible. Red Hat provides operating system platforms along with middleware, applications, and management solutions, as well as support, training, and consulting services to customers worldwide and through top-tier partnerships. Red Hat's open source strategy offers customers a long-term plan for building infrastructures that are based on and leverage open source technologies with a focus on security and ease of management.

Red Hat's mission:

To be the defining technology company of the 21st century.

Founded:

1993

Number of Employees:

Over 2200 worldwide

Ownership:

Publicly held (NYSE:RHT) as of August, 1999

Website:

www.redhat.com

Headquarters:

Varsity Drive
Raleigh, NC 27606
(919) 754-3700

Over 50 offices worldwide including locations in:

Australia
Brazil
Canada
China
France
Germany
Hong Kong
India
Ireland

Italy
Japan
Korea
Malaysia
Singapore
Spain
Sweden
United Kingdom
United States

Management:

Jim Whitehurst
President and Chief Executive Officer

Charlie Peters
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

Alex Pinchev
Executive Vice President and President Global Sales, Services and Field Marketing

Paul Cormier
Executive Vice President and President, Products and Technologies

Michael Cunningham
Executive Vice President and General Counsel

DeLisa Alexander
Senior Vice President, Human Capital

Michael Chen
Vice President, Corporate Marketing

Lee Congdon
Chief Information Officer

Nick Van Wyk
Vice President, Operations and Senior Transformation Executive

Products and Services:

Red Hat offers a comprehensive line of software subscriptions, services, and support making it the leading resource for open source solutions.

Key customers:

Red Hat customers include enterprise organizations, academic and research institutions, and local, state and federal governments. Among our enterprise customers: Amazon.com, AOL, Merrill Lynch, Credit Suisse First Boston, DreamWorks, Lithonia Lighting, VeriSign, Charles Schwab, Lehman Brothers, UBS Warburg, Morgan Stanley, and Goodyear.

Key partners:

IBM, Dell, HP, Oracle, Sun, Fujitsu, Intel, NEC, Hitachi, BEA

Key Awards:

  • CIO Insight Magazine's Most Valued Vendor, 2006
  • CIO Insight Magazine's Most Valued Vendor, 2005
  • June 2002, CNET survey - more than 2,200 IT professionals were asked which companies would be most relevant to their business in the next five years. They ranked Red Hat #2. Ahead of IBM, Sun, Dell, Cisco, HP, Oracle, Apple.