City of Vienna Deploys Red Hat

  
    
  
  
    
      Red Hat (NASDAQ: RHAT), the world's leading provider of open source 
      solutions, today announced that the city of Vienna has selected Red Hat 
      Enterprise Linux as the platform of choice for its servers. Austria’s 
      capital is using the operating system for both mission-critical 
      applications such as database servers and other systems including file 
      servers. The decision to go with Red Hat as the platform of choice was 
      made on the basis of extensive positive experiences in the past and a 
      fundamental decision to deploy the most reliable and efficient 
      technologies.
    
    
      Linux has a strong reputation within Magisterial Department 14 of the 
      city of Vienna. In many ways, its use of the open source operating 
      system is exemplary of other public institutions and enterprises. From 
      the early 1990s the city of Vienna has been running Linux servers. At 
      the start, these were mainly systems with FreeBSD. However, as the city 
      of Vienna looked to the future and the migration of mission-critical 
      systems to Linux, it decided that required a reliable Linux platform, 
      developed and supported by a professional vendor.
    
    
      “Red Hat has always had a rigorous focus on 
      the stability of its Linux platform, a commitment that has been apparent 
      and appreciated by us ever since we began deploying Red Hat,” 
      explains Franz Brauneder, server management at the City of Vienna. “In 
      addition, Red Hat could always provide the largest partner network and 
      the most certifications from ISVs and IHVs. Not only was this a key 
      factor for our choice of an operating system, but it is reflected in our 
      own experience of the outstanding quality of the Red Hat software. Since 
      the start of our use of Red Hat, we have not once had a critical problem 
      connected with the operating system.”
    
    
      To date, the city of Vienna has migrated more than 100 servers to Red 
      Hat Enterprise Linux, principally deploying Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES 
      and AS on HP hardware. Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES is used by the city 
      of Vienna to power its Samba file servers and Apache servers, together 
      with legacy applications written by the city of Vienna itself. For 
      applications such as its Oracle databases, which need both a lot of 
      resources and highly availability, the IT managers of the city of Vienna 
      selected Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS. In the future, the city of Vienna 
      expects to expand this area of its Linux installation with the imminent 
      deployment of PostgreSQL on Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS together with 
      the migration of its AIX-Unix databases to Red Hat’s 
      flagship solution.
    
    
      To effectively manage its steadily growing Linux infrastructure, the 
      city of Vienna uses the Red Hat Satellite Server with provisioning 
      module. All Red Hat Enterprise Linux systems are being integrated into 
      the management console of the Satellite Server and can be managed 
      centrally. On-demand remote access is also easily possible. In addition, 
      the provisioning module allows IT managers of the city of Vienna to set 
      up new computers remotely over the network. For added security, Red Hat 
      Satellite Server can also be run completely disconnected from the 
      Internet and consequently provides an especially high degree of security 
      from hacking attacks.
    
    
      ”The city of Vienna is a landmark cooperation 
      for Red Hat,” commented Werner Knoblich, Vice 
      President and General Manager, Red Hat EMEA. “The 
      city of Vienna has made a fundamental decision for an expanded 
      deployment of open source software in order to, among other things, 
      avoid vendor-lock-in. Fully open source and with no hidden costs, Red 
      Hat Enterprise Linux is not only the distribution with the fewest 
      patches by far, but its maintenance by the community ensures Red Hat’s 
      customers are guaranteed the highest product quality and 
      vendor-independence.”
    
    
      For more information on Red Hat Enterprise solutions, please visit: http://www.redhat.com/rhel
    
    
      About Red Hat, Inc.
    
    
      Red Hat, the world's leading open source solutions provider, is 
      headquartered in Raleigh, NC with satellite offices spanning the globe. 
      CIOs and other senior-level IT executives have ranked Red Hat as the 
      industry's most valued vendor for two consecutive years in the CIO 
      Insight Magazine Vendor Value study. Red Hat is leading Linux and open 
      source solutions into the mainstream by making high-quality, low-cost 
      technology accessible. Red Hat provides an operating system platform, 
      Red Hat Enterprise Linux, along with applications, management, and 
      middleware solutions, including JBoss Enterprise Middleware Suite. Red 
      Hat is accelerating the shift to service-oriented architectures and 
      enabling the next generation of web-enabled applications running on a 
      low-cost, secure open source platform. 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 a focus on security and ease of 
      management. Learn more: http://www.redhat.com
    
    
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Red Hat (NASDAQ: RHAT), the world's leading provider of open
source solutions, today announced that the city of Vienna has selected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux as the platform of choice for its servers.
Austria's capital is using the operating system for both
mission-critical applications such as database servers and other
systems including file servers. The decision to go with Red Hat as the
platform of choice was made on the basis of extensive positive
experiences in the past and a fundamental decision to deploy the most
reliable and efficient technologies.

   Linux has a strong reputation within Magisterial Department 14 of
the city of Vienna. In many ways, its use of the open source operating
system is exemplary of other public institutions and enterprises. From
the early 1990s the city of Vienna has been running Linux servers. At
the start, these were mainly systems with FreeBSD. However, as the
city of Vienna looked to the future and the migration of
mission-critical systems to Linux, it decided that required a reliable
Linux platform, developed and supported by a professional vendor.

   "Red Hat has always had a rigorous focus on the stability of its
Linux platform, a commitment that has been apparent and appreciated by
us ever since we began deploying Red Hat," explains Franz Brauneder,
server management at the City of Vienna. "In addition, Red Hat could
always provide the largest partner network and the most certifications
from ISVs and IHVs. Not only was this a key factor for our choice of
an operating system, but it is reflected in our own experience of the
outstanding quality of the Red Hat software. Since the start of our
use of Red Hat, we have not once had a critical problem connected with
the operating system."

   To date, the city of Vienna has migrated more than 100 servers to
Red Hat Enterprise Linux, principally deploying Red Hat Enterprise
Linux ES and AS on HP hardware. Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES is used by
the city of Vienna to power its Samba file servers and Apache servers,
together with legacy applications written by the city of Vienna
itself. For applications such as its Oracle databases, which need both
a lot of resources and highly availability, the IT managers of the
city of Vienna selected Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS. In the future,
the city of Vienna expects to expand this area of its Linux
installation with the imminent deployment of PostgreSQL on Red Hat
Enterprise Linux AS together with the migration of its AIX-Unix
databases to Red Hat's flagship solution.

   To effectively manage its steadily growing Linux infrastructure,
the city of Vienna uses the Red Hat Satellite Server with provisioning
module. All Red Hat Enterprise Linux systems are being integrated into
the management console of the Satellite Server and can be managed
centrally. On-demand remote access is also easily possible. In
addition, the provisioning module allows IT managers of the city of
Vienna to set up new computers remotely over the network. For added
security, Red Hat Satellite Server can also be run completely
disconnected from the Internet and consequently provides an especially
high degree of security from hacking attacks.

   "The city of Vienna is a landmark cooperation for Red Hat,"
commented Werner Knoblich, Vice President and General Manager, Red Hat
EMEA. "The city of Vienna has made a fundamental decision for an
expanded deployment of open source software in order to, among other
things, avoid vendor-lock-in. Fully open source and with no hidden
costs, Red Hat Enterprise Linux is not only the distribution with the
fewest patches by far, but its maintenance by the community ensures
Red Hat's customers are guaranteed the highest product quality and
vendor-independence."

   For more information on Red Hat Enterprise solutions, please
visit: http://www.redhat.com/rhel

   About Red Hat, Inc.

   Red Hat, the world's leading open source solutions provider, is
headquartered in Raleigh, NC with satellite offices spanning the
globe. CIOs and other senior-level IT executives have ranked Red Hat
as the industry's most valued vendor for two consecutive years in the
CIO Insight Magazine Vendor Value study. Red Hat is leading Linux and
open source solutions into the mainstream by making high-quality,
low-cost technology accessible. Red Hat provides an operating system
platform, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, along with applications,
management, and middleware solutions, including JBoss Enterprise
Middleware Suite. Red Hat is accelerating the shift to
service-oriented architectures and enabling the next generation of
web-enabled applications running on a low-cost, secure open source
platform. 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 a focus on security and ease of management. Learn
more: http://www.redhat.com

   Forward-Looking Statements

   Certain statements contained in this press release may constitute
"forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private
Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements
provide current expectations of future events based on certain
assumptions and include any statement that does not directly relate to
any historical or current fact. Actual results may differ materially
from those indicated by such forward-looking statements as a result of
various important factors, including: risks related to the integration
of acquisitions; the ability of the Company to effectively compete;
the inability to adequately protect Company intellectual property and
the potential for infringement or breach of license claims of or
relating to third party intellectual property; risks related to data
and information security vulnerabilities; ineffective management of,
and control over, the Company's growth and international operations;
adverse results in litigation; the dependence on key personnel as well
as other factors contained in our most recent Quarterly Report on Form
10-Q (copies of which may be accessed through the Securities and
Exchange Commission's website at http://www.sec.gov), including those
found therein under the captions "Risk Factors" and "Management's
Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of
Operations". In addition, the forward-looking statements included in
this press release represent the Company's views as of the date of
this press release and these views could change. However, while the
Company may elect to update these forward-looking statements at some
point in the future, the Company specifically disclaims any obligation
to do so. These forward-looking statements should not be relied upon
as representing the Company's views as of any date subsequent to the
date of the press release.

   LINUX is a trademark of Linus Torvalds. RED HAT and JBOSS are
registered trademarks of Red Hat, Inc. and its subsidiaries in the US
and other countries. VMware is a registered trademark or trademark of
VMware, Inc. in the United States and/or other jurisdictions. All
other marks and names mentioned herein may be trademarks of their
respective companies.