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Red Hat Expands Enterprise SOA Offering with Management and Next-Generation ESB and Rules Features

RALEIGH, NC - October 8, 2008 - Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced the expansion of its enterprise offerings for SOA deployment with the release of JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform 4.3 and JBoss Operations Network 2.1. The newest versions of JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform and JBoss Operations Network will feature cooperative support and will allow for the remote monitoring and management of open source SOA deployments.

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NH Hoteles Selects Red Hat and JBoss Solutions for Its Business-Critical Web Portal

RALEIGH, NC - October 6, 2008 - Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that NH Hoteles, a well-known European business hotel chain with 350 locations across 21 countries, has launched its business-critical web platform based on a combination of Red Hat and JBoss solutions. The NH Hoteles platform was developed using JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, Red Hat Enterprise Linux and JBoss Operations Network.

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Red Hat Delivers First Integrated Linux-Based High Performance Computing Platform

Raleigh, NC - October 2, 2008 - Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced the delivery of the industry's first integrated Linux-based High Performance Computing (HPC) platform with the global availability of the Red Hat HPC Solution, an all-in-one stack that customers can leverage to deploy, run and manage their HPC clusters.

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Red Hat Hosts Fourth Annual Government Users and Developers Conference

Raleigh, NC - October 2, 2008 - Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced the lineup for its fourth annual Government Users and Developers Conference. This year, under the theme of "Today. Tomorrow. Together." Red Hat users and partners will discuss the future of open source in government, share best practices and network with peers at other leading government agencies. The 2008 Red Hat Government Users and Developers Conference, hosted by Carahsoft Technology Corp., is scheduled to take place at the Ronald Reagan Building & International Trade Center in Washington, D.C. on October 7, 2008.

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Red Hat to Present Red Hat Summit and JBoss World Next September, 2009

Raleigh, NC - October 1, 2008 - Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced plans to present the Red Hat Summit and JBoss World at the downtown Hilton Chicago September 1-3, 2009. Red Hat and JBoss customers, partners and community members are invited to attend the co-located events to collaborate on the future of open source technology.

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Red Hat Reports Second Quarter Results

Raleigh, NC - September 24, 2008 - Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced financial results for its fiscal year 2009 second quarter ended August 31, 2008.

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Red Hat Achieves Record-Setting Price and Performance Benchmark

Raleigh, NC - September 23, 2008 - Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that Red Hat Enterprise Linux has achieved a powerful, record-setting TPC-C benchmark that demonstrates the rapid improvements that open source software can bring to overall performance and costs. In its fifth TPC-C result over 1M tpmC, Red Hat improved price performance to a level 20 percent lower than the best competing non-Red-Hat result with a combination of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2 on an IBM System x 3950 M2 with the new Intel X7460 Xeon processor.

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Red Hat Advances Virtualization Leadership with Qumranet, Inc. Acquisition

Raleigh, NC - September 4, 2008 - Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced the acquisition of Qumranet, Inc. The acquisition includes Qumranet's virtualization solutions, including its KVM (Kernel Virtual Machine) platform and SolidICE offering, a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), which together present a comprehensive virtualization platform for enterprise customers. In addition, Qumranet's talented team of professionals that develop, test and support Qumranet solutions, and its leaders of the open source community KVM project, will join Red Hat.

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CUNY to Form Open Source Solutions Lab with Collaboration from Red Hat and Intel

Raleigh, NC - September 3, 2008 - Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced a collaboration with Intel and the City University of New York (CUNY) to form the New York City Open Source Solutions Lab at the CUNY Institute for Software Design and Development. The facility will be a state-of-the-art center in which New York-based government IT professionals can test open source software solutions based on Intel architecture.

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Red Hat Delivers Unmatched Performance at a Fraction of Previous Costs for Sabre Holdings, Travelocity

Raleigh, NC - August 20, 2008 - Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that Sabre Holdings, a world leader in travel marketing and distribution and parent company to Travelocity, Sabre Travel Network and Sabre Airline Solutions, relies on Red Hat solutions for increased performance, system reliability and scalability for its mission-critical open systems. Compared to proprietary Unix/RISC solutions during benchmarking, Sabre's testing has proven that Red Hat Enterprise Linux on Intel performs three times faster and at a fraction of the cost.

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The Fedora Project Unveils New Scholarship Program

Raleigh, NC - Aug 18, 2008 - The Fedora Project, a Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT) sponsored and community-supported open source collaboration, today announced the newly created Fedora Scholarship program recognizing college and university-bound students across the globe for their contributions to free software and the Fedora Project. The inaugural scholarship recipient for 2008 is Ricky Zhou who will attend Carnegie Mellon University this fall.

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CRIX International Eases Pharmaceutical Processes with Red Hat and Alfresco Solutions

RALEIGH, N.C.- August 13, 2008 - Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, and Alfresco Software today announced that the Clinical Research Information Exchange (CRIX), a non-profit collaborative consortium that includes Eli Lilly, AstraZeneca, Pfizer and Novartis in the development of new drug therapies, has launched a secure and standards-based electronic information exchange for clinical research information that is based on a combination of Red Hat, JBoss and Alfresco solutions. The CRIX Collaboration Platform was developed using Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Alfresco Enterprise Content Management (ECM), JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform and JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, including JBoss Hibernate.

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Red Hat Solutions Provide Reliability and Performance Gains for Munich Airport

RALEIGH, N.C.- August 6, 2008 - Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that Munich Airport, recognized for three consecutive years as Europe's "Airport of the Year" by air transport research company Skytrax, has migrated a large portion of its UNIX servers and desktops to Red Hat Enterprise Linux. The Airport has since realized heightened performance, cost savings and reliable support.

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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Receives Department of Defense IPv6 Certification

Raleigh, NC - August 5, 2008 - Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2 has received Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) Special Interoperability Certification from the Defense Information System Agency (DISA) in accordance with the Department of Defense (DoD) IPv6 Master Test Plan. The certification demonstrates Red Hat's ongoing commitment to meeting the growing demands of government agencies and enterprises as they adapt to the next-generation Internet.

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German Home Savings and Loan Association Relies on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

RALEIGH, N.C.- August 4, 2008 - Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that Vereinsbank Victoria Bauspar AG (VVB), a German private home savings and loan association, has implemented SEP sesam running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 to maintain its backup and recovery solution for all database applications in its two parallel data centers. The high-performance solution enhances data transfer rates, speeding the resolution of backups while reducing maintenance and administration efforts.

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