Red Hat Recognized as Fastest-Growing Company by Dataquest Top 20 Awards

  
    
  
  
    
      Red Hat (NASDAQ: RHAT), the world's leading provider of open source 
      solutions to the enterprise, today announced that Dataquest has 
      recognized Red Hat as the fastest-growing company in India for 2005-2006 
      in its Dataquest Top 20 Awards.
    
    
      The Dataquest Top 20 Awards are the Indian IT industry's oldest 
      and most prestigious awards. Since 1993, companies have been honored on 
      the basis of the Dataquest Top 20, an annual survey conducted from April 
      to June each year. The survey rates IT companies operating in India on 
      the basis of their financial performance and sales revenues for the 
      fiscal year in various categories, including PCs, servers, peripherals, 
      software exports, package software, networking, IT training and IT 
      distribution.
    
    
      "I am extremely grateful to our customers and partners who have embraced 
      Red Hat’s technology and open source 
      initiatives since our inception in the country," said Nandu Pradhan, 
      President and Managing Director, Red Hat India. "We believe that the 
      Dataquest award is a reflection of the commitment and acceptance of Red 
      Hat technology in the Indian enterprise and across verticals. This 
      appreciation from customers and the industry combined encourages us to 
      take our efforts even further."
    
    
      According to CyberMedia Research, in the past year, Red Hat has 
      consistently maintained its leadership position in the Linux market and 
      has gained a market share of over 95 percent in India. This growth 
      signals not only the increasing acceptance of Linux by Indian 
      enterprises, but also India’s increasing trust 
      for the subscription-based software adoption model. Last year, 
      corporations and SMBs ported many of their mission-critical applications 
      to the Linux platform. eGovernance and financial services were Red Hat’s 
      primary growth drivers in India last year. Red Hat also localized Red 
      Hat Enterprise Linux in five Indian languages: Hindi, Gujarati, Tamil, 
      Bengali and Punjabi.
    
    
      Commenting on the exponential growth of Red Hat, Ibrahim Ahmed, Group 
      Editor at Dataquest, said, "The president’s 
      20:20 vision requires India to explore and adopt open source. Companies 
      like Red Hat, who are taking the initiatives to educate and grow the 
      Linux market, can bring us closer to this vision. We are glad to award a 
      company like Red Hat that has redefined software usage."
    
    
      For more information on Red Hat enterprise solutions, please visit http://www.redhat.com.
    
    
      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 to the enterprise, today announced that Dataquest has
recognized Red Hat as the fastest-growing company in India for
2005-2006 in its Dataquest Top 20 Awards.

   The Dataquest Top 20 Awards are the Indian IT industry's oldest
and most prestigious awards. Since 1993, companies have been honored
on the basis of the Dataquest Top 20, an annual survey conducted from
April to June each year. The survey rates IT companies operating in
India on the basis of their financial performance and sales revenues
for the fiscal year in various categories, including PCs, servers,
peripherals, software exports, package software, networking, IT
training and IT distribution.

   "I am extremely grateful to our customers and partners who have
embraced Red Hat's technology and open source initiatives since our
inception in the country," said Nandu Pradhan, President and Managing
Director, Red Hat India. "We believe that the Dataquest award is a
reflection of the commitment and acceptance of Red Hat technology in
the Indian enterprise and across verticals. This appreciation from
customers and the industry combined encourages us to take our efforts
even further."

   According to CyberMedia Research, in the past year, Red Hat has
consistently maintained its leadership position in the Linux market
and has gained a market share of over 95 percent in India. This growth
signals not only the increasing acceptance of Linux by Indian
enterprises, but also India's increasing trust for the
subscription-based software adoption model. Last year, corporations
and SMBs ported many of their mission-critical applications to the
Linux platform. eGovernance and financial services were Red Hat's
primary growth drivers in India last year. Red Hat also localized Red
Hat Enterprise Linux in five Indian languages: Hindi, Gujarati, Tamil,
Bengali and Punjabi.

   Commenting on the exponential growth of Red Hat, Ibrahim Ahmed,
Group Editor at Dataquest, said, "The president's 20:20 vision
requires India to explore and adopt open source. Companies like Red
Hat, who are taking the initiatives to educate and grow the Linux
market, can bring us closer to this vision. We are glad to award a
company like Red Hat that has redefined software usage."

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

   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.