Red Hat Gives Denkavit's Web Applications Added Bite

  
    
  
  
    
      Red Hat, Inc. (NASDAQ:RHAT), the world's leading provider of open source 
      solutions to the enterprise, today announced that Denkavit Groep, a 
      leading European animal food manufacturer in the Netherlands, has 
      implemented Oracle EnterpriseOne ERP suite running on Red Hat Enterprise 
      Linux across its IT systems. With this migration of key 
      business-critical services, Denkavit is the first European 
      implementation of Oracle EnterpriseOne on Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
    
    
      Denkavit’s goal was to create a completely 
      web-based system that links its business processes to those of its many 
      suppliers, customers and partners, and handles extremely high volume of 
      transactions. The migration to Oracle EnterpriseOne running on Red Hat 
      Enterprise Linux includes some of Denkavit’s 
      most important data and custom-built applications, which enable the 
      company to track and trace the raw materials used in their feeds. It is 
      vital for Denkavit to be meticulous in their record-keeping and able to 
      demonstrate exactly where its materials originate, how they have been 
      transported and where they have been stored.
    
    
      “Choosing Red Hat Enterprise Linux on Intel 
      provided our organization with the flexibility to make significant 
      modifications at the operating system level. It gives us full control 
      over aspects like processor priority and performance. Red Hat's 
      operating system conveniently splits out processes, while also 
      optimizing compute time for some of our more 'exotic' processes, greatly 
      enhancing performance,” said Frank van den 
      Hout, Systems and Network Administrator, Denkavit Nederland. “Not 
      only does Red Hat provide rock-solid stability and enhanced ease-of-use 
      for our most business-critical systems, but it has really enabled us to 
      reduce costs. Compared to the other solutions that were under 
      consideration, the choice of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux-based solution 
      will – overall – be 
      less expensive by a factor of four.”
    
    
      The manufacturing company implemented a solution that is a combination 
      of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS, a UDB database and Oracle EnterpriseOne, 
      running on four multiway Intel Xeon-powered HP servers – 
      three HP DL380 servers and one HP DL580 server. Denkavit’s 
      previous IT systems were custom-built solutions, programmed in Rally and 
      Cobol and running on HP Alpha servers, making ongoing support 
      increasingly difficult due to the limited number of skilled IT staff.
    
    
      “As Denkavit’s 
      business has grown, so has the need for a flexible, customizable and 
      scalable platform for its core web applications,” 
      said Werner Knoblich, Vice President of EMEA, Red Hat. “Throughout 
      the whole migration, the primary objective was to build a standardized, 
      easy-to-manage system that maintained all current functionality, 
      safeguarded the continuity of all processes and ensured a flexible, 
      future-proof IT environment. By running Oracle EnterpriseOne on Red Hat 
      Enterprise Linux, Denkavit has implemented an enterprise-ready solution 
      backed by the full support and maintenance from Red Hat Network that can 
      scale across its European operations. We’re 
      delighted to have worked with Oracle and Denkavit on this landmark 
      deployment.”
    
    
      After completing the Dutch migration at Denkavit in April 2007, the next 
      phase of the project will include rolling out the new system to the 
      German, Italian, and French offices at the end of 2007.
    
    
      For more information on Red Hat Enterprise solutions, please visit: http://www.redhat.com
    
    
      About Denkavit Groep
    
    
      Since 1929, 
      Denkavit has specialised in the development and production of high-grade 
      feeds, particularly for animals in the first phase of the rearing 
      period. The Denkavit Group is the leading partner for livestock farmers 
      and the compound feed industry in the Netherlands and abroad.
    
    
      Denkavit products are developed and produced on the basis of the results 
      of extensive research in laboratories and in the field (on our own trial 
      farms). This means that they meet the highest quality requirements that 
      apply to feeds for young animals.
    
    
      Learn more: http://www.denkavit.nl/corporate/home.asp?taal=uk
    
    
      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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      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 
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Red Hat, Inc. (NASDAQ:RHAT), the world's leading provider of open
source solutions to the enterprise, today announced that Denkavit
Groep, a leading European animal food manufacturer in the Netherlands,
has implemented Oracle EnterpriseOne ERP suite running on Red Hat
Enterprise Linux across its IT systems. With this migration of key
business-critical services, Denkavit is the first European
implementation of Oracle EnterpriseOne on Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

   Denkavit's goal was to create a completely web-based system that
links its business processes to those of its many suppliers, customers
and partners, and handles extremely high volume of transactions. The
migration to Oracle EnterpriseOne running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux
includes some of Denkavit's most important data and custom-built
applications, which enable the company to track and trace the raw
materials used in their feeds. It is vital for Denkavit to be
meticulous in their record-keeping and able to demonstrate exactly
where its materials originate, how they have been transported and
where they have been stored.

   "Choosing Red Hat Enterprise Linux on Intel provided our
organization with the flexibility to make significant modifications at
the operating system level. It gives us full control over aspects like
processor priority and performance. Red Hat's operating system
conveniently splits out processes, while also optimizing compute time
for some of our more 'exotic' processes, greatly enhancing
performance," said Frank van den Hout, Systems and Network
Administrator, Denkavit Nederland. "Not only does Red Hat provide
rock-solid stability and enhanced ease-of-use for our most
business-critical systems, but it has really enabled us to reduce
costs. Compared to the other solutions that were under consideration,
the choice of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux-based solution will -
overall - be less expensive by a factor of four."

   The manufacturing company implemented a solution that is a
combination of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS, a UDB database and Oracle
EnterpriseOne, running on four multiway Intel Xeon-powered HP servers
- three HP DL380 servers and one HP DL580 server. Denkavit's previous
IT systems were custom-built solutions, programmed in Rally and Cobol
and running on HP Alpha servers, making ongoing support increasingly
difficult due to the limited number of skilled IT staff.

   "As Denkavit's business has grown, so has the need for a flexible,
customizable and scalable platform for its core web applications,"
said Werner Knoblich, Vice President of EMEA, Red Hat. "Throughout the
whole migration, the primary objective was to build a standardized,
easy-to-manage system that maintained all current functionality,
safeguarded the continuity of all processes and ensured a flexible,
future-proof IT environment. By running Oracle EnterpriseOne on Red
Hat Enterprise Linux, Denkavit has implemented an enterprise-ready
solution backed by the full support and maintenance from Red Hat
Network that can scale across its European operations. We're delighted
to have worked with Oracle and Denkavit on this landmark deployment."

   After completing the Dutch migration at Denkavit in April 2007,
the next phase of the project will include rolling out the new system
to the German, Italian, and French offices at the end of 2007.

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

   About Denkavit Groep

   Since 1929, Denkavit has specialised in the development and
production of high-grade feeds, particularly for animals in the first
phase of the rearing period. The Denkavit Group is the leading partner
for livestock farmers and the compound feed industry in the
Netherlands and abroad.

   Denkavit products are developed and produced on the basis of the
results of extensive research in laboratories and in the field (on our
own trial farms). This means that they meet the highest quality
requirements that apply to feeds for young animals.

   Learn more: http://www.denkavit.nl/corporate/home.asp?taal=uk

   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.