Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced the fourth-annual Red Hat Summit to take place June 18-20, 2008 at the Hynes Convention Center in Boston, Mass.
The Red Hat Summit is an annual conference featuring hands-on workshops, demonstrations, technical and business sessions, solutions expos and opportunities to speak and network with the developers, engineers and partners behind Red Hat's leading open source software solutions. Bringing together customers, partners and members of the community in a global open source knowledge exchange, the Red Hat Summit also highlights keynote speeches presented by visionary industry leaders. Last year, featured Summit keynoters included Red Hat CEO Matthew Szulik, Red Hat CTO Brian Stevens, Dreamworks Head of Digital Operations Derek Chan, eMusic CEO David Pakman, AMD's Henri Richard and other visionaries.
We are thrilled to announce our fourth Red Hat Summit, to take place in Boston next June,
said Michael Chen, vice president, Corporate Marketing at Red Hat. The Summit has always provided high-value networking and learning opportunities. We look forward to developing a highly compelling agenda with the help of customers, partners and open source community leaders.
For more information about the Red Hat Summit 2008 in Boston, Mass., visit http://www.redhat.com/promo/summit/2008. For information about the JBoss international users conference, JBoss World Orlando, taking place Feb. 13-15, 2008, visit www.jbossworld.com.
About Red Hat, Inc.
Red Hat, the world's leading open source solutions provider, is headquartered in Raleigh, NC with over 50 satellite offices spanning the globe. CIOs have ranked Red Hat first for value in Enterprise Software for three consecutive years in the CIO Insight Magazine Vendor Value study. Red Hat provides high-quality, low-cost technology with its operating system platform, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, together with applications, management and Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) solutions, including the JBoss Enterprise Middleware Suite. Red Hat also offers support, training and consulting services to its customers worldwide. Learn more: http://www.redhat.com.
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