JBoss Positioned in Leaders Quadrant in Prestigious Enterprise Application Servers Magic Quadrant

JBoss, a division of Red Hat (NASDAQ: RHAT), today
announced that Gartner, Inc. has positioned JBoss in the Leaders
Quadrant in the 2Q06 Enterprise Application Servers Magic Quadrant(1).
According to Gartner, vendors listed in the Leaders Quadrant are
performing well today, have a clear vision of market direction and are
actively building competencies to sustain their leadership position in
the market.
   "We believe our position in the Leaders Quadrant confirms our
model of building great software, distributing it under an open source
license, and backing it up with high-value subscription services,"
said Marc Fleury, senior vice president and general manager of the
JBoss Division, Red Hat. "It's a simple formula that is disrupting the
software business and ultimately delivers greater value to our
enterprise customers. This vision, backed by our proven ability to
execute, is driving mass adoption of JBoss as a foundation for
service-oriented architecture and Web 2.0 applications."
   Gartner noted, "Vendors that are strong in the record of their
execution and their ability to follow and influence the market are
labeled 'market leaders.'" Vendors were evaluated on their ability to
execute, which reflects the staying power and record of execution of
vendors in the market, and the completeness of vision, which reflects
the vendors' ability to understand the market trends, influence them,
and follow them with agility and consistency.
   With over eight million downloads, the JBoss Application Server is
the centerpiece of the JBoss Enterprise Middleware Suite (JEMS), the
leading open source platform for (SOA). JEMS offers a pluggable
architecture that allows enterprises to use as much or as little of
the platform with room to expand as their business needs grow. For
more information about JEMS, visit http://jboss.com/products/index.

   About the Magic Quadrant

   The Magic Quadrant is copyrighted August 2006 by Gartner, Inc. and
is reused with permission. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical
representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It
depicts Gartner's analysis of how certain vendors measure against
criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not
endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the Magic Quadrant,
and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors
placed in the "Leaders" quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is intended
solely as a research tool, and is not meant to be a specific guide to
action. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with
respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability
or fitness for a particular purpose.

   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. The most trusted name in open source, 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 operating system software along with
applications, management, and middleware solutions, including JBoss
Enterprise Middleware Suite (JEMS). Red Hat is accelerating the shift
to service-oriented architectures (SOA) 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 focus on security and ease of
management. Learn more: http://www.redhat.com.

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   (1) "Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Application Servers, 2Q06";
Yefim V. Natis, Massimo Pezzini, Kimihiko Iijima and Michael Barnes;
Gartner, Inc.; August 4, 2006.

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