ISVs Show Early Support For Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

  
    
  
  
    
      Red Hat (NASDAQ: RHAT), the world's leading provider of open source 
      solutions, today announced that strategic members of Red Hat's broad 
      ecosystem of independent software vendors (ISVs) are already supporting 
      and testing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Beta 2 to prepare for Red Hat's 
      next major subscription milestone (announced Friday, November 17). These 
      software partners have begun testing to ensure early certification of 
      their solutions at general availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 
      this winter and to guarantee that customers can benefit from the new 
      technologies and cost-savings as quickly as possible.
    
    
      "The ISV community is key to Red Hat's success. Over the last 5 years we 
      have worked with the broad ISV community to ensure that customers have 
      as many quality choices as possible when building architectures based on 
      open source," said Tim Yeaton, Senior Vice President of Enterprise 
      Solutions, Red Hat. "Together with the ISV community, we'll continue to 
      have the best depth and breadth of applications for the success of our 
      customers.”
    
    
      Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, to be released in early 2007, is the next 
      major subscription milestone of Red Hat's flagship platform solution. 
      With a continued focus on technologies designed to drive costs out of 
      the infrastructure, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 will be the first 
      solution to deliver complete, integrated, commercial-strength 
      virtualization.
    
    
      The Red Hat ISV Partner Program continues to attract industry-leading 
      solution providers whose applications support the Red Hat Enterprise 
      Linux operating system. The goal of the program has been to ensure that 
      there are as many choices as possible for customers building 
      architectures based on open source. Early partners in the program 
      included IBM, Oracle, Computer Associates and BEA Systems. Many existing 
      partners have worked over time to ensure that entire lines of enterprise 
      applications support Red Hat Enterprise Linux. More than 2,000 ISV 
      applications now support Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
    
    
      For more information on Red Hat Enterprise Linux or for a list of 
      compatible applications, please visit: http://www.redhat.com
    
    
      Partner Support
    
    
      Acronis
    
    
      "Our Acronis True Image disk-imaging solution is being tested with new 
      features that are planned for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and it has 
      proven to be an exceptionally robust, powerful, high-performance and 
      flexible Linux platform,” said Zorian 
      Rotenberg director of Business Development at Acronis. “We 
      are committed to developing our products for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 
      and are proud to be a Red Hat partner."
    
    
      BMC
    
    
      "As the leader in Business Service Management, BMC Software helps 
      customers align IT with business priorities and services providing 
      customers with expansive solution offerings that meet their varying IT 
      demands," said Sean Duclaux, director of Product Management, at BMC 
      Software. "BMC Software is committed to providing solutions that help 
      customers lower IT costs, improve business agility and mitigate risk. 
      BMC is working with Red Hat to certify our solutions on the forthcoming 
      Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. Together, we will deliver maximum value to 
      customers combining a Business Service Management approach with Red Hat 
      Enterprise Linux 5."
    
    
      Etnus
    
    
      "Etnus is the world's leading provider of debugging and analysis 
      solutions for the multi-core age. Our TotalView family of products 
      enable software engineers to visualize, control and correct complex 
      multi-core applications quickly and easily," said Dick Andersen, vice 
      president of Marketing at Etnus. Dick continued, "With solutions 
      certified on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, we can both concurrently 
      deliver to the market the industry leading products our customers have 
      asked for."
    
    
      Mentor Graphics
    
    
      "As a leader in electronic design solutions serving the world’s 
      most successful electronics and semiconductor companies, Mentor Graphics 
      works constantly to provide customers with the latest technologies," 
      said Rich Monahan, director of IT Engineering Services at Mentor 
      Graphics. Participating in Red Hat’s early 
      access beta program allows us to validate our products on the next Red 
      Hat release and allows our customers to rapidly realize the flexibility, 
      cost-savings and value-adding technologies forthcoming in Red Hat 
      Enterprise Linux 5."
    
    
      Opsware
    
    
      "The increasing adoption of Red Hat Linux in data centers is creating 
      more demand for data center automation and management solutions like 
      Opsware's. We are working closely with Red Hat to help customers more 
      rapidly adopt the new subscription release and realize the cost savings 
      that will be offered by Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 in combination with 
      Opsware's automated management," said Tim Howes, CTO of Opsware Inc.
    
    
      Platform Computing
    
    
      "Linux and Open Source is an important part of our grid and 
      virtualization business today and we see it as a significant part of our 
      business tomorrow and as such have begun early testing with the Red Hat 
      Enterprise Linux 5 beta," said Chris Purpura, vice president of 
      Strategic Alliances and New Ventures at Platform Computing. "Our 
      partnership with Red Hat is important to our customers because we're 
      able to provide a broad range of closed and open-source solutions like 
      Platform Enterprise Grid Orchestrator and Platform Open Cluster Stack 
      that bring tremendous value to their distributed Linux environments."
    
    
      Scalix
    
    
      Scalix Corporation, a recognized leader in providing Linux-based 
      messaging to enterprises, said the partnership between Red Hat and 
      Scalix has been a winning combination for its customers. "Red Hat 
      Enterprise Linux has been a standard platform for Scalix's customers for 
      years," said Glenn Winokur, Scalix's Chief Executive Officer. "Scalix is 
      actively working with Red Hat to ensure that our customers can quickly 
      adopt this new subscription release with a fully compatible Scalix 
      solution. Scalix and Red Hat are providing an integrated open source 
      solution for customers today, making it possible for more customers to 
      switch from Microsoft to our highly scalable, reliable and rich Linux 
      messaging alternative."
    
    
      Sybase
    
    
      "Sybase and Red Hat have been working together to provide 
      enterprise-class data management solutions on Linux," said Herman Li, 
      vice president of Engineering at Sybase. "Many Sybase products run on 
      Linux and with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. Sybase can extend its lower 
      cost-of-ownership value proposition to our Linux customers."
    
    
      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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      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.
    
  
Red Hat (NASDAQ: RHAT), the world's leading provider of open
source solutions, today announced that strategic members of Red Hat's
broad ecosystem of independent software vendors (ISVs) are already
supporting and testing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Beta 2 to prepare
for Red Hat's next major subscription milestone (announced Friday,
November 17). These software partners have begun testing to ensure
early certification of their solutions at general availability of Red
Hat Enterprise Linux 5 this winter and to guarantee that customers can
benefit from the new technologies and cost-savings as quickly as
possible.

   "The ISV community is key to Red Hat's success. Over the last 5
years we have worked with the broad ISV community to ensure that
customers have as many quality choices as possible when building
architectures based on open source," said Tim Yeaton, Senior Vice
President of Enterprise Solutions, Red Hat. "Together with the ISV
community, we'll continue to have the best depth and breadth of
applications for the success of our customers."

   Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, to be released in early 2007, is the
next major subscription milestone of Red Hat's flagship platform
solution. With a continued focus on technologies designed to drive
costs out of the infrastructure, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 will be
the first solution to deliver complete, integrated,
commercial-strength virtualization.

   The Red Hat ISV Partner Program continues to attract
industry-leading solution providers whose applications support the Red
Hat Enterprise Linux operating system. The goal of the program has
been to ensure that there are as many choices as possible for
customers building architectures based on open source. Early partners
in the program included IBM, Oracle, Computer Associates and BEA
Systems. Many existing partners have worked over time to ensure that
entire lines of enterprise applications support Red Hat Enterprise
Linux. More than 2,000 ISV applications now support Red Hat Enterprise
Linux.

   For more information on Red Hat Enterprise Linux or for a list of
compatible applications, please visit: http://www.redhat.com

   Partner Support

   Acronis

   "Our Acronis True Image disk-imaging solution is being tested with
new features that are planned for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and it
has proven to be an exceptionally robust, powerful, high-performance
and flexible Linux platform," said Zorian Rotenberg director of
Business Development at Acronis. "We are committed to developing our
products for Red Hat Enterprise Linux and are proud to be a Red Hat
partner."

   BMC

   "As the leader in Business Service Management, BMC Software helps
customers align IT with business priorities and services providing
customers with expansive solution offerings that meet their varying IT
demands," said Sean Duclaux, director of Product Management, at BMC
Software. "BMC Software is committed to providing solutions that help
customers lower IT costs, improve business agility and mitigate risk.
BMC is working with Red Hat to certify our solutions on the
forthcoming Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. Together, we will deliver
maximum value to customers combining a Business Service Management
approach with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5."

   Etnus

   "Etnus is the world's leading provider of debugging and analysis
solutions for the multi-core age. Our TotalView family of products
enable software engineers to visualize, control and correct complex
multi-core applications quickly and easily," said Dick Andersen, vice
president of Marketing at Etnus. Dick continued, "With solutions
certified on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, we can both concurrently
deliver to the market the industry leading products our customers have
asked for."

   Mentor Graphics

   "As a leader in electronic design solutions serving the world's
most successful electronics and semiconductor companies, Mentor
Graphics works constantly to provide customers with the latest
technologies," said Rich Monahan, director of IT Engineering Services
at Mentor Graphics. Participating in Red Hat's early access beta
program allows us to validate our products on the next Red Hat release
and allows our customers to rapidly realize the flexibility,
cost-savings and value-adding technologies forthcoming in Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 5."

   Opsware

   "The increasing adoption of Red Hat Linux in data centers is
creating more demand for data center automation and management
solutions like Opsware's. We are working closely with Red Hat to help
customers more rapidly adopt the new subscription release and realize
the cost savings that will be offered by Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 in
combination with Opsware's automated management," said Tim Howes, CTO
of Opsware Inc.

   Platform Computing

   "Linux and Open Source is an important part of our grid and
virtualization business today and we see it as a significant part of
our business tomorrow and as such have begun early testing with the
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 beta," said Chris Purpura, vice president
of Strategic Alliances and New Ventures at Platform Computing. "Our
partnership with Red Hat is important to our customers because we're
able to provide a broad range of closed and open-source solutions like
Platform Enterprise Grid Orchestrator and Platform Open Cluster Stack
that bring tremendous value to their distributed Linux environments."

   Scalix

   Scalix Corporation, a recognized leader in providing Linux-based
messaging to enterprises, said the partnership between Red Hat and
Scalix has been a winning combination for its customers. "Red Hat
Enterprise Linux has been a standard platform for Scalix's customers
for years," said Glenn Winokur, Scalix's Chief Executive Officer.
"Scalix is actively working with Red Hat to ensure that our customers
can quickly adopt this new subscription release with a fully
compatible Scalix solution. Scalix and Red Hat are providing an
integrated open source solution for customers today, making it
possible for more customers to switch from Microsoft to our highly
scalable, reliable and rich Linux messaging alternative."

   Sybase

   "Sybase and Red Hat have been working together to provide
enterprise-class data management solutions on Linux," said Herman Li,
vice president of Engineering at Sybase. "Many Sybase products run on
Linux and with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. Sybase can extend its lower
cost-of-ownership value proposition to our Linux customers."

   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.