Red Hat and VMware Expand Relationship to Accelerate Open and Interoperable Virtualization

  
    
  
  
    
      Red Hat (NASDAQ: RHAT), the world's leading provider of open source 
      solutions to the enterprise, and VMware, the global leader in virtual 
      infrastructure software, today announced an expanded relationship to 
      support customers and ISVs who are deploying virtualization today. As 
      part of the relationship, Red Hat and VMware are delivering 
      certification and focusing on open, community-based interoperability 
      between Red Hat and VMware solutions.
    
    
      “Customers care about open interoperability 
      and certification for running joint Red Hat and VMware environments,” 
      said Brian Stevens, CTO at Red Hat. “With this 
      relationship, the two virtualization platforms that Red Hat Enterprise 
      Linux will support are the VMware platform and the Red Hat Integrated 
      Virtualization platform that will be available in Red Hat Enterprise 
      Linux 5. The wide adoption of open source is a result of the commitment 
      to interoperability. Support for our joint customers is just one more 
      example of the efficacy of true open source development."
    
    
      “The combination of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 
      and VMware software has always been a popular solution with customers, 
      and we look forward to collaborating with Red Hat to advance open 
      community-based technologies such as virtual machine disk formats and 
      paravirtualization APIs,” said Brian Byun, 
      vice president of Global Partners and Solutions at VMware. “We 
      are committed to driving support, certification, and interoperability 
      with Red Hat Enterprise Linux and the Red Hat Application Stack. Red Hat 
      Enterprise Linux is also the first operating system to be certified by 
      VMware as part of the VMware Virtual Appliance Marketplace.”
    
    
      Red Hat and VMware will accelerate their efforts to drive adoption of 
      open and accessible interoperability points through a community-based 
      development model. By collaborating on key technology issues such as 
      virtual machine disk formats, paravirtualization, and management API's, 
      the companies intend to work within the open source community to create 
      a common, interoperable virtualization model that ISVs and customers can 
      trust - no matter which deployment model they choose.
    
    
      “For us to broadly deploy Red Hat and VMware 
      environments in production, we need strong interoperability, 
      certifications and support from Red Hat and VMware together,” 
      said Chris McDaniel, Director, Network Operations at Rearden Commerce. “This 
      expanded relationship between Red Hat and VMware will assure that we can 
      make Linux virtualization with Red Hat and VMware a standard component 
      of our environment.”
    
    
      Red Hat has already certified VMware Infrastructure as both a certified 
      software application and a certified virtual hardware platform for Red 
      Hat Enterprise Linux. In addition, all VMware solutions fully support 
      running Red Hat Enterprise Linux inside a virtualized environment. 
      Starting today, the Red Hat Application Stack virtual appliance is 
      certified and available in VMDK format in the VMware Virtual Appliance 
      Marketplace for both customers and ISVs to evaluate in a pre-production 
      environment. The VMware Virtual Appliance Marketplace can be found at http://vam.vmware.com.
    
    
      Red Hat and VMware plan to jointly deliver channel bundles of Red Hat 
      Enterprise Linux and the Red Hat Application Stack paired up with VMware 
      Infrastructure and VMware Server. These bundled solutions are designed 
      to bring together the best of open source and virtual infrastructure in 
      an integrated and jointly supported solution bundle for customers, 
      systems integrators, and channel partners to adopt and leverage.
    
    
      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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      of acquisitions; the ability of the Company to effectively compete; the 
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      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 
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      may elect to update these forward-looking statements at some point in 
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      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. VMware is a registered 
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Red Hat (NASDAQ: RHAT), the world's leading provider of open
source solutions to the enterprise, and VMware, the global leader in
virtual infrastructure software, today announced an expanded
relationship to support customers and ISVs who are deploying
virtualization today. As part of the relationship, Red Hat and VMware
are delivering certification and focusing on open, community-based
interoperability between Red Hat and VMware solutions.

   "Customers care about open interoperability and certification for
running joint Red Hat and VMware environments," said Brian Stevens,
CTO at Red Hat. "With this relationship, the two virtualization
platforms that Red Hat Enterprise Linux will support are the VMware
platform and the Red Hat Integrated Virtualization platform that will
be available in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. The wide adoption of open
source is a result of the commitment to interoperability. Support for
our joint customers is just one more example of the efficacy of true
open source development."

   "The combination of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and VMware software
has always been a popular solution with customers, and we look forward
to collaborating with Red Hat to advance open community-based
technologies such as virtual machine disk formats and
paravirtualization APIs," said Brian Byun, vice president of Global
Partners and Solutions at VMware. "We are committed to driving
support, certification, and interoperability with Red Hat Enterprise
Linux and the Red Hat Application Stack. Red Hat Enterprise Linux is
also the first operating system to be certified by VMware as part of
the VMware Virtual Appliance Marketplace."

   Red Hat and VMware will accelerate their efforts to drive adoption
of open and accessible interoperability points through a
community-based development model. By collaborating on key technology
issues such as virtual machine disk formats, paravirtualization, and
management API's, the companies intend to work within the open source
community to create a common, interoperable virtualization model that
ISVs and customers can trust - no matter which deployment model they
choose.

   "For us to broadly deploy Red Hat and VMware environments in
production, we need strong interoperability, certifications and
support from Red Hat and VMware together," said Chris McDaniel,
Director, Network Operations at Rearden Commerce. "This expanded
relationship between Red Hat and VMware will assure that we can make
Linux virtualization with Red Hat and VMware a standard component of
our environment."

   Red Hat has already certified VMware Infrastructure as both a
certified software application and a certified virtual hardware
platform for Red Hat Enterprise Linux. In addition, all VMware
solutions fully support running Red Hat Enterprise Linux inside a
virtualized environment. Starting today, the Red Hat Application Stack
virtual appliance is certified and available in VMDK format in the
VMware Virtual Appliance Marketplace for both customers and ISVs to
evaluate in a pre-production environment. The VMware Virtual Appliance
Marketplace can be found at http://vam.vmware.com.

   Red Hat and VMware plan to jointly deliver channel bundles of Red
Hat Enterprise Linux and the Red Hat Application Stack paired up with
VMware Infrastructure and VMware Server. These bundled solutions are
designed to bring together the best of open source and virtual
infrastructure in an integrated and jointly supported solution bundle
for customers, systems integrators, and channel partners to adopt and
leverage.

   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. VMware is a registered trademark or trademark of
VMware, Inc. in the United States and/or other jurisdictions. All
other marks and names mentioned herein may be trademarks of their
respective companies.