Red Hat Gains Momentum in the Spanish Market

  
    
  
  
    
      Red Hat, Inc. (NASDAQ: RHAT), the world's leading provider of open 
      source solutions, today announced that the company has experienced 
      strong growth in Spain in recent months, with a substantial increase in 
      the number of customers that rely on its open source technology.
    
    
      Companies from multiple sectors, including energy, insurance, financial 
      services, shipping, logistics and public sector are selecting Red Hat 
      solutions to provide stability to their mission critical information 
      systems. “Red Hat is experiencing strong 
      momentum in Spain, where companies are opting for a broad rollout of 
      open source software to benefit from a complete open source 
      architecture, without any hidden costs. Customers are choosing Red Hat 
      for its commitment to interoperability between platforms and reliability 
      of its technology,” said Werner Knoblich, VP 
      of EMEA at Red Hat.
    
    
      In the insurance sector, Union Alcoyana is one of the recent customers 
      that deployed Red Hat Enterprise Linux as the main operating system in a 
      number of IT projects. “We just recently 
      finished our web server project,” explained José 
      Agulló, Programmer Analyst of the insurance 
      company. “We had previously been experiencing 
      hardware compatibility problems and also some issues regarding server 
      security, so a new system was essential. The implementation was a 
      success and working with Red Hat has undoubtedly had very real benefits 
      for our company. This project was the most recent in a long-standing 
      relationship with Red Hat and we continue to rely on their strong 
      support, technical service and product updates.”
    
    
      Arsys, a leading Internet service provider in Spain with regional 
      presence in France and Portugal, announced its migration to Red Hat 
      Enterprise Linux as its main platform to develop and offer secure 
      Internet services to its 120,000 customers across Europe in September 
      this year. By migrating to Red Hat, Arsys benefits from reduced costs 
      and extended support for seven years through the Red Hat Network for 
      updates and patches, as well as the automation of key administrative 
      tasks that will drastically reduce the working hours for the staff 
      maintaining the platforms. The Red Hat Enterprise Linux platform will 
      enable Arsys to provide services such as Apache, PHP, MySQL, Postfix and 
      Cyrus technologies to its customers.
    
    
      “We chose Red Hat because of its combination 
      of leading market position, industry support and certification from the 
      major hardware and software manufacturers, the security and reliability 
      of the platform and the training, support and tools. Taken together, 
      migrating across to Red Hat will help us to ease part of our IT 
      management cycle and allow us to save a considerable amount of time,” 
      commented Manuel Amutio, General Technical Director at Arsys Internet.
    
    
      For more information about Red Hat Enterprise Linux, please visit www.europe.redhat.com
    
    
      About Union Alcoyana
    
    
      Union Alcoyana, Joint Stock Insurance and Reinsurance company, 
      incorporated in 1877 in Alicante. Today, the company operates in the 
      Non-life lines, focusing mainly in three areas: industrial risks, 
      patrimonial protection and patrimonial risks. www.unionalcoyana.es
    
    
      About Arsys
    
    
      With more than 300000 registrar domains and more that 120000 customers, 
      Arsys Internet is the leading web registrar and hosting provider in 
      Spain and holds one of the first places in Europe. The company, with 
      more than 200 employees, provides Internet services to more than 100 
      countries through arsys.es, arsys.fr and arsys.pt. In 2005, got a €27,6 
      million turnover, up 18% from prior fiscal year. www.arsys.es
    
    
      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, today announced that the company has experienced
strong growth in Spain in recent months, with a substantial increase
in the number of customers that rely on its open source technology.

   Companies from multiple sectors, including energy, insurance,
financial services, shipping, logistics and public sector are
selecting Red Hat solutions to provide stability to their mission
critical information systems. "Red Hat is experiencing strong momentum
in Spain, where companies are opting for a broad rollout of open
source software to benefit from a complete open source architecture,
without any hidden costs. Customers are choosing Red Hat for its
commitment to interoperability between platforms and reliability of
its technology," said Werner Knoblich, VP of EMEA at Red Hat.

   In the insurance sector, Union Alcoyana is one of the recent
customers that deployed Red Hat Enterprise Linux as the main operating
system in a number of IT projects. "We just recently finished our web
server project," explained Jose Agullo, Programmer Analyst of the
insurance company. "We had previously been experiencing hardware
compatibility problems and also some issues regarding server security,
so a new system was essential. The implementation was a success and
working with Red Hat has undoubtedly had very real benefits for our
company. This project was the most recent in a long-standing
relationship with Red Hat and we continue to rely on their strong
support, technical service and product updates."

   Arsys, a leading Internet service provider in Spain with regional
presence in France and Portugal, announced its migration to Red Hat
Enterprise Linux as its main platform to develop and offer secure
Internet services to its 120,000 customers across Europe in September
this year. By migrating to Red Hat, Arsys benefits from reduced costs
and extended support for seven years through the Red Hat Network for
updates and patches, as well as the automation of key administrative
tasks that will drastically reduce the working hours for the staff
maintaining the platforms. The Red Hat Enterprise Linux platform will
enable Arsys to provide services such as Apache, PHP, MySQL, Postfix
and Cyrus technologies to its customers.

   "We chose Red Hat because of its combination of leading market
position, industry support and certification from the major hardware
and software manufacturers, the security and reliability of the
platform and the training, support and tools. Taken together,
migrating across to Red Hat will help us to ease part of our IT
management cycle and allow us to save a considerable amount of time,"
commented Manuel Amutio, General Technical Director at Arsys Internet.

   For more information about Red Hat Enterprise Linux, please visit
www.europe.redhat.com

   About Union Alcoyana

   Union Alcoyana, Joint Stock Insurance and Reinsurance company,
incorporated in 1877 in Alicante. Today, the company operates in the
Non-life lines, focusing mainly in three areas: industrial risks,
patrimonial protection and patrimonial risks. www.unionalcoyana.es

   About Arsys

   With more than 300000 registrar domains and more that 120000
customers, Arsys Internet is the leading web registrar and hosting
provider in Spain and holds one of the first places in Europe. The
company, with more than 200 employees, provides Internet services to
more than 100 countries through arsys.es, arsys.fr and arsys.pt. In
2005, got a EUR 27,6 million turnover, up 18% from prior fiscal year.
www.arsys.es

   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.