Red Hat and Nokia Collaborate on Carrier-Grade Telecomunications Solutions

  
    
  
  
    
      Red Hat, Inc. (NASDAQ: RHAT), the world's leading provider of open 
      source solutions, and Nokia today announced that the two companies have 
      agreed to collaborate on carrier-grade telecommunications solutions, 
      allowing Nokia to deliver carrier-grade solutions that meet the high 
      performance and availability requirements demanded by operators. Nokia’s 
      Networks Business Group has selected Red Hat Enterprise Linux as its 
      primary operating system for carrier-grade server platforms. Red Hat 
      will provide Nokia with onsite consulting, support, certification and 
      training services, and will be tightly integrated with Nokia's technical 
      team for telecommunications solutions development.
    
    
      "The Red Hat Enterprise Linux platform has long been known for high 
      levels of reliability and availability in situations where downtime is 
      not an option. Working with Nokia, we plan to make our solution for the 
      telecommunications industry even stronger," said Paul Cormier, Executive 
      Vice President of Engineering, Red Hat. "We are especially pleased to 
      have gained the confidence of Nokia's Networks Group as evidenced by 
      their decision to use Red Hat Enterprise Linux as its primary operating 
      system."
    
    
      "Nokia's strategy focuses on long-term, committed cooperation with the 
      most innovative players in the industry,” said 
      Juha Carlson, General Manager, Product Platforms at Networks, Nokia. “The 
      aim is to provide superior customer value with open, advanced and high 
      quality products, solutions and services. Our cooperation with Red Hat 
      on Enterprise Linux is building on Nokia's experience and commitment to 
      open ecosystems and technologies."
    
    
      Nokia will continue to work with Red Hat on carrier-grade server 
      platforms that are used as the underlying infrastructure for a wide 
      range of emerging Nokia solutions. Nokia will focus its deployment on 
      the FlexiPlatform, and will complete full integration with Red Hat 
      Enterprise Linux on multiple hardware variants this year.
    
    
      To learn more about Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat's 
      telecommunication solutions, please visit http://www.redhat.com. 
      To learn more about Nokia, please visit http://www.nokia.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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Red Hat, Inc. (NASDAQ: RHAT), the world's leading provider of open
source solutions, and Nokia today announced that the two companies
have agreed to collaborate on carrier-grade telecommunications
solutions, allowing Nokia to deliver carrier-grade solutions that meet
the high performance and availability requirements demanded by
operators. Nokia's Networks Business Group has selected Red Hat
Enterprise Linux as its primary operating system for carrier-grade
server platforms. Red Hat will provide Nokia with onsite consulting,
support, certification and training services, and will be tightly
integrated with Nokia's technical team for telecommunications
solutions development.

   "The Red Hat Enterprise Linux platform has long been known for
high levels of reliability and availability in situations where
downtime is not an option. Working with Nokia, we plan to make our
solution for the telecommunications industry even stronger," said Paul
Cormier, Executive Vice President of Engineering, Red Hat. "We are
especially pleased to have gained the confidence of Nokia's Networks
Group as evidenced by their decision to use Red Hat Enterprise Linux
as its primary operating system."

   "Nokia's strategy focuses on long-term, committed cooperation with
the most innovative players in the industry," said Juha Carlson,
General Manager, Product Platforms at Networks, Nokia. "The aim is to
provide superior customer value with open, advanced and high quality
products, solutions and services. Our cooperation with Red Hat on
Enterprise Linux is building on Nokia's experience and commitment to
open ecosystems and technologies."

   Nokia will continue to work with Red Hat on carrier-grade server
platforms that are used as the underlying infrastructure for a wide
range of emerging Nokia solutions. Nokia will focus its deployment on
the FlexiPlatform, and will complete full integration with Red Hat
Enterprise Linux on multiple hardware variants this year.

   To learn more about Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat's
telecommunication solutions, please visit http://www.redhat.com. To
learn more about Nokia, please visit http://www.nokia.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
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.