Red Hat Desktop wins Enterprise Technology Product of the Year at the 2004 CNET Networks UK Technology Awards

Red Hat, Inc. (Nasdaq: RHAT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions to the enterprise, today announced that its Red Hat Desktop product has received the Enterprise Technology Product of the Year award at the CNET Networks UK Technology Awards 2004, which was presented at the CNET Awards' Gala Dinner in Central London yesterday.

CNET Networks UK is a leading media company providing technology news via different newswire brands with a market-leading reach into the UK IT and business decision making audience. The Enterprise Technology Product of the Year award recognises companies who have delivered a smart, innovative software solution that enabled businesses to manage risk, increase productivity or gain other business advantages.

The newest member of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux family, Red Hat Desktop is a high-quality, fully-featured client system suitable for use in a wide range of desktop deployments where security and manageability are key and is a cost-effective productivity solution for enterprise desktop users. Launched in London in May this year, the Red Hat Desktop is a productive environment that features mature open source office applications including an e-mail client, browser and office suite.

"It is very encouraging and exciting to receive such positive recognition from an industry acclaimed body such as CNET," said Paul Salazar, Director of EMEA at Red Hat. "By bringing Linux to the desktop as well as the server, Red Hat is now able to provide the first unified 100% open source architecture from the client to server and from the desktop to the mainframe, marking a key milestone in the development of the Linux computing model."

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About Red Hat, Inc.

Red Hat, the world's leading open source and Linux provider, is headquartered in Raleigh, NC with satellite offices spanning the globe. 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 software along with middleware, applications and management solutions. Red Hat also offers support, training and consulting services to its 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 focus on security and ease of management. Learn more: http://www.redhat.com.

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