Red Hat's Global Community of Channel Partners See Increase in Demand for Oracle on Red Hat Enterprise Linux

  
    
  
  
    
      Red Hat, Inc. (NASDAQ: RHAT), the world's leading provider of open 
      source solutions to the enterprise, today announced that leading channel 
      partners are expanding their open source business in response to 
      customer demand. Partners are noting particular acceleration for Oracle 
      solutions on Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
    
    
      Since 2002, enterprise customers have experienced great performance 
      gains at a lower cost by moving from proprietary UNIX to Linux. The most 
      significant performance gains were realized in data intensive 
      application workloads. The drive to increase performance while reducing 
      costs continues with a recent record-setting achievement: Red Hat 
      Enterprise Linux 4 running Oracle Database 10g R2 Enterprise Edition 
      with Partitioning is the current performance world record holder for the 
      Transaction Processing Performance Council's TPC-H 3000GB benchmark, 
      achieved using an HP BladeSystem ProLiant BL25p cluster 64p DC system on 
      June 8, 2006. This result demonstrated 5 percent better performance and 
      30 percent better price/performance than the number two result, a Sun 
      Fire E25K server running Solaris 10.
    
    
      Today Red Hat's Advanced Business Partners are helping their customers 
      migrate critical business applications to Linux. Solution providers are 
      ramping up to respond to the expansive demand for Oracle solutions on 
      Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
    
    
      Compel Group PLC is a leading provider of enterprise IT solutions 
      and a Red Hat Advanced Business Partner in the United Kingdom. Compel is 
      the largest Oracle solution provider in the UK with over 120 Oracle 
      consultants who deliver tailored business solutions built on the broad 
      portfolio of Oracle software. "We have seen significant interest in 
      Oracle 10g on the Red Hat Enterprise Linux platform over the past twelve 
      months and expect this trend to increase with the predicted market 
      growth," said Enzo Brienza, Marketing Manager, Compel Group Plc.
    
    
      SLTN is the leading Red Hat Advanced Business Partner in the 
      Netherlands and a strategic Oracle solution provider. "SLTN is rapidly 
      expanding Oracle on Red Hat projects with our customers. Open source 
      makes up about 20 percent of our installations on data center servers. 
      For enterprise databases, our customers and prospects are working mostly 
      with Oracle technology, especially for grid computing and Oracle RAC 
      solutions," said Rob de Lange, Manager, Systems Solutions for SLTN.
    
    
      FusionStorm is a Red Hat Advanced Business Partner and leading 
      Oracle solution provider in Northern California. FusionStorm is a 
      leading national provider of IT solutions, professional services, 
      support contract services and 24x7 managed services for enterprises of 
      all sizes. "In the last twelve months Red Hat has really shown increased 
      dedication and commitment to the channel. Support has been fantastic 
      across sales, marketing and engineering, making Red Hat a much larger 
      focus for FusionStorm in 2006 and 2007," said Stephen Soper, Director of 
      Enterprise Software, FusionStorm. "Additionally, Red Hat continues to 
      bolster their technical offerings with solutions delivering enterprise 
      functionality at a low price point. They have found a nice balance 
      between commitment to open source and proprietary technology offerings."
    
    
      ASG was formed in Perth, Western Australia in 1996. ASG has grown 
      to be an established, profitable, publicly-listed Australian-managed IT 
      services company with over 400 staff, and offices throughout Australia. 
      ASG is an Australian-owned IT services company, and is both a Red Hat 
      Advanced Partner and an Oracle Certified Advantage Partner. Steve Tull, 
      ASG's CTO, said, "ASG has effectively deployed Oracle on Red Hat 
      solutions for a significant number of large clients in the government, 
      health and commercial sectors. We've seen these solutions provide 
      significant cost savings through the use of more cost-effective, 
      commodity-based hardware. While in the past we would have deployed these 
      Oracle systems on large costly proprietary Unix systems with expensive 
      CPU and memory components, we are increasingly using the Red Hat 
      distribution to provide significantly more cost-effective and reliable 
      solutions for our clients. Just as we saw with the move from large, 
      costly and proprietary disk arrays to Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive 
      Disks (RAID) in the mainframe era, we are now seeing another significant 
      paradigm shift towards Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Servers (RAIS)."
    
    
      Magnifix Sdn Bhd, established in 1997, is a system integrator 
      based in KL, Malaysia and the leading solution provider of Oracle on Red 
      Hat Enterprise Linux and Oracle. Magnifix has been a Red Hat Advanced 
      Business Partner and Oracle partner since 1998. Magnifix provides 
      network and system integration, Internet/Intranet services, application 
      development, consulting, training and implementation. "Our close 
      partnership with Red Hat and Oracle has not only added value, but has 
      also allowed us to upgrade our service level to all our customers," said 
      Meor Safi Zainal, General Manager, Magnifix. Cxrus Solutions is a 
      business solution provider providing infrastructure implementation and 
      robust business applications in the Asia Pacific region. The company was 
      founded by a group of technology entrepreneurs who viewed open source 
      solutions as viable, low-cost replacements of high-cost applications. 
      "In today's market, enterprises need to maintain their business agility. 
      Applications are complex and customers need the assurance that their 
      critical business infrastructures will be reliable. Partner 
      certification has provided such assurance as companies like Red Hat and 
      Oracle have invested considerably in pre-testing and certification," 
      said Alvin Teo, Director of Business Solutions, Cxrus Solutions Pte Ltd. 
      "As a user and distributor of Red Hat and Oracle, we are able to provide 
      the assurance to our customers that our solutions will meet their 
      business needs, in addition to lowering their total cost of ownership."
    
    
      For more information on Red Hat Enterprise solutions, or to learn about 
      Red Hat partner programs, 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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      statements” within the meaning of the Private 
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      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 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”. 
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      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 
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Red Hat, Inc. (NASDAQ: RHAT), the world's leading provider of open
source solutions to the enterprise, today announced that leading
channel partners are expanding their open source business in response
to customer demand. Partners are noting particular acceleration for
Oracle solutions on Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

   Since 2002, enterprise customers have experienced great
performance gains at a lower cost by moving from proprietary UNIX to
Linux. The most significant performance gains were realized in data
intensive application workloads. The drive to increase performance
while reducing costs continues with a recent record-setting
achievement: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 running Oracle Database 10g R2
Enterprise Edition with Partitioning is the current performance world
record holder for the Transaction Processing Performance Council's
TPC-H 3000GB benchmark, achieved using an HP BladeSystem ProLiant
BL25p cluster 64p DC system on June 8, 2006. This result demonstrated
5 percent better performance and 30 percent better price/performance
than the number two result, a Sun Fire E25K server running Solaris 10.

   Today Red Hat's Advanced Business Partners are helping their
customers migrate critical business applications to Linux. Solution
providers are ramping up to respond to the expansive demand for Oracle
solutions on Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

   Compel Group PLC is a leading provider of enterprise IT solutions
and a Red Hat Advanced Business Partner in the United Kingdom. Compel
is the largest Oracle solution provider in the UK with over 120 Oracle
consultants who deliver tailored business solutions built on the broad
portfolio of Oracle software. "We have seen significant interest in
Oracle 10g on the Red Hat Enterprise Linux platform over the past
twelve months and expect this trend to increase with the predicted
market growth," said Enzo Brienza, Marketing Manager, Compel Group
Plc.

   SLTN is the leading Red Hat Advanced Business Partner in the
Netherlands and a strategic Oracle solution provider. "SLTN is rapidly
expanding Oracle on Red Hat projects with our customers. Open source
makes up about 20 percent of our installations on data center servers.
For enterprise databases, our customers and prospects are working
mostly with Oracle technology, especially for grid computing and
Oracle RAC solutions," said Rob de Lange, Manager, Systems Solutions
for SLTN.

   FusionStorm is a Red Hat Advanced Business Partner and leading
Oracle solution provider in Northern California. FusionStorm is a
leading national provider of IT solutions, professional services,
support contract services and 24x7 managed services for enterprises of
all sizes. "In the last twelve months Red Hat has really shown
increased dedication and commitment to the channel. Support has been
fantastic across sales, marketing and engineering, making Red Hat a
much larger focus for FusionStorm in 2006 and 2007," said Stephen
Soper, Director of Enterprise Software, FusionStorm. "Additionally,
Red Hat continues to bolster their technical offerings with solutions
delivering enterprise functionality at a low price point. They have
found a nice balance between commitment to open source and proprietary
technology offerings."

   ASG was formed in Perth, Western Australia in 1996. ASG has grown
to be an established, profitable, publicly-listed Australian-managed
IT services company with over 400 staff, and offices throughout
Australia. ASG is an Australian-owned IT services company, and is both
a Red Hat Advanced Partner and an Oracle Certified Advantage Partner.
Steve Tull, ASG's CTO, said, "ASG has effectively deployed Oracle on
Red Hat solutions for a significant number of large clients in the
government, health and commercial sectors. We've seen these solutions
provide significant cost savings through the use of more
cost-effective, commodity-based hardware. While in the past we would
have deployed these Oracle systems on large costly proprietary Unix
systems with expensive CPU and memory components, we are increasingly
using the Red Hat distribution to provide significantly more
cost-effective and reliable solutions for our clients. Just as we saw
with the move from large, costly and proprietary disk arrays to
Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks (RAID) in the mainframe era, we
are now seeing another significant paradigm shift towards Redundant
Arrays of Inexpensive Servers (RAIS)."

   Magnifix Sdn Bhd, established in 1997, is a system integrator
based in KL, Malaysia and the leading solution provider of Oracle on
Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Oracle. Magnifix has been a Red Hat
Advanced Business Partner and Oracle partner since 1998. Magnifix
provides network and system integration, Internet/Intranet services,
application development, consulting, training and implementation. "Our
close partnership with Red Hat and Oracle has not only added value,
but has also allowed us to upgrade our service level to all our
customers," said Meor Safi Zainal, General Manager, Magnifix. Cxrus
Solutions is a business solution provider providing infrastructure
implementation and robust business applications in the Asia Pacific
region. The company was founded by a group of technology entrepreneurs
who viewed open source solutions as viable, low-cost replacements of
high-cost applications. "In today's market, enterprises need to
maintain their business agility. Applications are complex and
customers need the assurance that their critical business
infrastructures will be reliable. Partner certification has provided
such assurance as companies like Red Hat and Oracle have invested
considerably in pre-testing and certification," said Alvin Teo,
Director of Business Solutions, Cxrus Solutions Pte Ltd. "As a user
and distributor of Red Hat and Oracle, we are able to provide the
assurance to our customers that our solutions will meet their business
needs, in addition to lowering their total cost of ownership."

   For more information on Red Hat Enterprise solutions, or to learn
about Red Hat partner programs, 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
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 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.