Red Hat Expands Footprint in Telecommunications Industry

  
    
  
  
    
      Red Hat, Inc. (NASDAQ:RHAT), the world's leading provider of open source 
      solutions to the enterprise, today announced that the company is 
      dramatically widening its reach in the global telecommunications 
      industry as evidenced by the company's participation in the European 
      Community Open Platform for User-Centric Service Creation and Execution 
      (OPUCE) project and the extension and integration of Red Hat and JBoss 
      telecommunications solutions.
    
    
      RED HAT PARTICIPATES IN OPUCE
    
    
      Red Hat continues to grow as a high-value player in the global 
      telecommunications industry. Along with other leading telecommunications 
      companies, Red Hat has announced its participation in OPUCE, a European 
      Community Framework Program's Sixth Framework Program (FP6) project 
      designed to deliver the next-generation telecommunication service 
      delivery platform (SDP) for use across the EU. Red Hat and JEMS experts 
      will be responsible for building an open source ecosystem around OPUCE 
      and bringing direct expertise on how to build open source communities 
      and support mission-critical environments based on open source software.
    
    
      OPUCE will produce an open service infrastructure that enables easy 
      service creation and deployment in heterogeneous environments. It will 
      allow services to be accessed in a seamless way by a multitude of 
      devices connected via different networks and makes open source central 
      to building out next-generation telecommunications infrastructure. End 
      users will benefit from enriched service variety and relevance, and 
      service providers will discover eased service creation and the 
      opportunity to expand service offerings.
    
    
      "Red Hat continues to leverage the complete open source platform to 
      evolve as an infrastructure and solution provider for the 
      telecommunications industry," said Tim Yeaton, Senior Vice President of 
      Worldwide Marketing and General Manger of Enterprise Solutions, Red Hat. 
      "Projects like OPUCE enable us to demonstrate the virtues of open 
      platforms and the open source development model while, at the same time, 
      provide us with unique perspective of how telecommunications 
      infrastructure and solutions will be defined and deployed in the future."
    
    
      "We are pleased to include Red Hat as a member of OPUCE. Red Hat's 
      reputation as an open source innovator and track record of high 
      performance in mission-critical enterprise and telecommunications 
      environments make it an ideal partner for next-generation 
      telecommunications infrastructure," said Antonio Sánchez, 
      Project Manager, Telefonica. "With its recent acquisition of JBoss, Red 
      Hat is even better positioned to participate in the development of 
      next-generation telecommunications middleware and service delivery 
      platform capabilities."
    
    
      RED HAT'S TELECOMMUNICATIONS 
      PLATFORM
    
    
      Integrated Red Hat and JBoss solutions have become the platform of 
      choice for mission-critical applications in enterprises and 
      telecommunications operators worldwide. As a logical extension of Red 
      Hat Enterprise Linux as a carrier-grade operating system, JBoss 
      Enterprise Middleware Suite (JEMS) has emerged as the market-leading 
      middleware suite for telecommunications by simplifying development of 
      Enterprise Java applications and enabling telecommunications companies 
      to accelerate time-to-market with flexible, cost-effective solutions. 
      Leading telecommunications operators, equipment manufactures and ISVs 
      worldwide continue to choose open platforms based on Red Hat Enterprise 
      Linux and JEMS over costly proprietary alternatives.
    
    
      Red Hat envisions JEMS to emerge as a core technology for the 
      next-generation SDP market, and will look to leverage its current and 
      growing ecosystem of OEM, NEP and ISV partners to drive feature 
      road-maps and commercialization. JEMS runs on a variety of platforms, 
      and is optimized for deployment on industry-standard software and Red 
      Hat Enterprise Linux.
    
    
      Red Hat works with leading NEPs, ISVs and operators to define 
      requirements and ensure that Red Hat Enterprise Linux can be deployed in 
      carrier-grade settings. Red Hat Enterprise Linux has been tested and 
      hardened across thousands of enterprise and telecommunications 
      environments, and it provides the stability, predictability and track 
      record required by the industry. Operators and equipment providers 
      actively participate in the planning and definition of future versions 
      of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and verify that it meets the performance, 
      reliability and security requirements of the industry. Operators also 
      rely on Red Hat's hardware and software certification program to provide 
      the level of structure, process and infrastructure required to support 
      the telecommunications ecosystem.
    
    
      Red Hat's value to telecommunications companies also extends beyond the 
      partner ecosystem and the capabilities of the platform. Linux is Free 
      Open Source Software (FOSS), based on the GNU Public License (GPL), 
      which provides customers with the assurance that the source for their 
      platform will always be freely available. This ensures that the customer 
      cannot be locked-in to one platform or driven to a particular 
      architecture by closed binary dependencies.
    
    
      To learn more about Red Hat telecommunications solutions, please visit http://www.redhat.com/solutions/teleco. 
      For more information about OPUCE, please visit http://www.opuce.eu. 
      For ISVs interested in Red Hat partner programs, please visit http://www.redhat.com/solutions/partners/. 
      For equipment providers or operators interested in the Red Hat 
      Telecommunications Partner Program, please email [e-mail].
    
    
      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 
      potential for infringement or breach of license claims regarding 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 Annual Report on Form 10-K (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, Inc. (NASDAQ:RHAT), the world's leading provider of open
source solutions to the enterprise, today announced that the company
is dramatically widening its reach in the global telecommunications
industry as evidenced by the company's participation in the European
Community Open Platform for User-Centric Service Creation and
Execution (OPUCE) project and the extension and integration of Red Hat
and JBoss telecommunications solutions.

   RED HAT PARTICIPATES IN OPUCE

   Red Hat continues to grow as a high-value player in the global
telecommunications industry. Along with other leading
telecommunications companies, Red Hat has announced its participation
in OPUCE, a European Community Framework Program's Sixth Framework
Program (FP6) project designed to deliver the next-generation
telecommunication service delivery platform (SDP) for use across the
EU. Red Hat and JEMS experts will be responsible for building an open
source ecosystem around OPUCE and bringing direct expertise on how to
build open source communities and support mission-critical
environments based on open source software.

   OPUCE will produce an open service infrastructure that enables
easy service creation and deployment in heterogeneous environments. It
will allow services to be accessed in a seamless way by a multitude of
devices connected via different networks and makes open source central
to building out next-generation telecommunications infrastructure. End
users will benefit from enriched service variety and relevance, and
service providers will discover eased service creation and the
opportunity to expand service offerings.

   "Red Hat continues to leverage the complete open source platform
to evolve as an infrastructure and solution provider for the
telecommunications industry," said Tim Yeaton, Senior Vice President
of Worldwide Marketing and General Manger of Enterprise Solutions, Red
Hat. "Projects like OPUCE enable us to demonstrate the virtues of open
platforms and the open source development model while, at the same
time, provide us with unique perspective of how telecommunications
infrastructure and solutions will be defined and deployed in the
future."

   "We are pleased to include Red Hat as a member of OPUCE. Red Hat's
reputation as an open source innovator and track record of high
performance in mission-critical enterprise and telecommunications
environments make it an ideal partner for next-generation
telecommunications infrastructure," said Antonio Sanchez, Project
Manager, Telefonica. "With its recent acquisition of JBoss, Red Hat is
even better positioned to participate in the development of
next-generation telecommunications middleware and service delivery
platform capabilities."

   RED HAT'S TELECOMMUNICATIONS PLATFORM

   Integrated Red Hat and JBoss solutions have become the platform of
choice for mission-critical applications in enterprises and
telecommunications operators worldwide. As a logical extension of Red
Hat Enterprise Linux as a carrier-grade operating system, JBoss
Enterprise Middleware Suite (JEMS) has emerged as the market-leading
middleware suite for telecommunications by simplifying development of
Enterprise Java applications and enabling telecommunications companies
to accelerate time-to-market with flexible, cost-effective solutions.
Leading telecommunications operators, equipment manufactures and ISVs
worldwide continue to choose open platforms based on Red Hat
Enterprise Linux and JEMS over costly proprietary alternatives.

   Red Hat envisions JEMS to emerge as a core technology for the
next-generation SDP market, and will look to leverage its current and
growing ecosystem of OEM, NEP and ISV partners to drive feature
road-maps and commercialization. JEMS runs on a variety of platforms,
and is optimized for deployment on industry-standard software and Red
Hat Enterprise Linux.

   Red Hat works with leading NEPs, ISVs and operators to define
requirements and ensure that Red Hat Enterprise Linux can be deployed
in carrier-grade settings. Red Hat Enterprise Linux has been tested
and hardened across thousands of enterprise and telecommunications
environments, and it provides the stability, predictability and track
record required by the industry. Operators and equipment providers
actively participate in the planning and definition of future versions
of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and verify that it meets the performance,
reliability and security requirements of the industry. Operators also
rely on Red Hat's hardware and software certification program to
provide the level of structure, process and infrastructure required to
support the telecommunications ecosystem.

   Red Hat's value to telecommunications companies also extends
beyond the partner ecosystem and the capabilities of the platform.
Linux is Free Open Source Software (FOSS), based on the GNU Public
License (GPL), which provides customers with the assurance that the
source for their platform will always be freely available. This
ensures that the customer cannot be locked-in to one platform or
driven to a particular architecture by closed binary dependencies.

   To learn more about Red Hat telecommunications solutions, please
visit http://www.redhat.com/solutions/teleco. For more information
about OPUCE, please visit http://www.opuce.eu. For ISVs interested in
Red Hat partner programs, please visit
http://www.redhat.com/solutions/partners/. For equipment providers or
operators interested in the Red Hat Telecommunications Partner
Program, please email [e-mail].

   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
potential for infringement or breach of license claims regarding 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 Annual Report on Form 10-K (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.