Telecommunications ISVs Choose Red Hat

  
    
  
  
    
      Red Hat (NASDAQ: RHAT), the world's leading provider of open source 
      solutions to the enterprise, today announced that, in the past six 
      months alone, 29 strategic telecommunications independent software 
      vendors (ISV) have partnered with Red Hat as part of the company's 
      Telecommunications Partner Program.
    
    
      Hundreds of telecommunications software providers already support Red 
      Hat Enterprise Linux, and this new telecommunications ISV milestone is 
      further evidence of Red Hat's success in targeting application providers 
      in industry verticals where open source adoption is happening rapidly. 
      In collaboration with the ISV, original equipment manufacturer (OEM) and 
      network equipment provider (NEP) communities, Red Hat and its partners 
      continue to equip the telecommunications ecosystem with open platforms 
      and solutions that are more cost effective and flexible than proprietary 
      alternatives, as well as meet the stringent availability, reliability 
      and predictability requirements of the industry.
    
    
      "ISVs in the telecommunications industry are choosing Red Hat because of 
      our long heritage of delivering highly reliable and valuable solutions, 
      and hundreds of telecommunications software providers now support Red 
      Hat Enterprise Linux as their deployment platform of choice," said Tim 
      Yeaton, Senior Vice President of Enterprise Solutions, Red Hat. "Through 
      Red Hat's Telecommunications Partner Program, telecommunications 
      software providers are able to formally certify their products on Red 
      Hat software and can collaborate with us to promote and validate open 
      platforms for telecommunications. We are thrilled to work with all of 
      our partners to move the telecommunications industry forward."
    
    
      Telecommunications companies are under increasing pressure to deliver 
      new and better services that are faster and more cost efficient. 
      Reliability and stability in infrastructure is paramount. Expensive and 
      closed proprietary systems, long the norm in the industry, are being 
      eclipsed by open platforms that are able to quickly respond to customer 
      needs. Red Hat offers a complete service-oriented architecture solution, 
      including Red Hat Enterprise Linux and JBoss Enterprise Middleware Suite 
      (JEMS), to customers, enabling telecommunications companies to 
      accelerate time-to-market with flexible, cost-effective solutions. Red 
      Hat solutions can be deployed faster and more cost effectively than 
      proprietary alternatives, while also providing greater levels of 
      performance.
    
    
      The MATERNA group, a new Red Hat telecommunications partner, is among 
      the leading independent software companies in Germany's information and 
      communication technology sector. MATERNA provides innovative solutions, 
      products and services that are employed in business and public 
      administration as comprehensive solutions or as solution modules.
    
    
      "MATERNA uses Red Hat Enterprise Linux for many products because we see 
      a rising demand for Linux-based systems with our customers," said Stefan 
      Brandes, Product Marketing Manager, MATERNA. "We see the benefits of our 
      partnership with Red Hat in the support they deliver, the regular 
      updates per release and the security patches."
    
    
      MobileAware is a Red Hat partner and the world's leading provider of 
      Mobile Service Infrastructure, a strategic approach for creating and 
      managing mobile data solutions across all lines of business. MobileAware 
      provides a unified framework that fully integrates with existing 
      enterprise service infrastructure to make customers' mobile strategies a 
      seamless extension of overall business strategies. Mobile Service 
      Infrastructure simplifies the complexity surrounding disparate data, 
      device diversity and network convergence, enabling companies to rapidly 
      launch secure and reliable mobile solutions that leverage existing 
      business assets and resources.
    
    
      "MobileAware views Red Hat Enterprise Linux as a significant benefit in 
      an ever-increasing number of telecommunications engagements," said Dr. 
      Rotan Hanrahan, Chief Innovations Architect, MobileAware. "Partnering 
      with Red Hat affords us early access to forthcoming product releases, 
      technical support and the confidence that we fully meet customer 
      demands."
    
    
      Red Hat partner RADVISION® Technology Business 
      Unit (TBU) is the leading source of telecommunications software 
      developer tools, such as SIP and SIP IMS toolkits. RADVISION has 
      hundreds of OEM developer customers all over the world, including most 
      major telecommunications equipment vendors.
    
    
      "We have constant demand from our equipment and application development 
      partners to provide our high performance telecommunication toolkits for 
      the Linux operating system. We applaud Red Hat’s 
      partner program and are happy to cooperate with them strategically in 
      this important market segment,” said Tsahi 
      Levent-Levi, Product Marketing Manager, RADVISION, TBU. "As operators 
      begin to roll out IMS deployments, we expect the demand for Linux to 
      grow because of its rock-solid stability and high performance."
    
    
      The Red Hat Telecommunications Partner Program drives awareness and 
      adoption of carrier-grade server platforms and solutions based on 
      industry-standard hardware and Red Hat software. The Telecommunications 
      Partner Program deepens Red Hat's relationships with leading NEPs, OEMs, 
      telecommunications ISVs and operators, and packages Red Hat's new and 
      existing capabilities into an integrated platform that can be easily 
      leveraged across the telecommunications ecosystem.
    
    
      Red Hat works with leading NEPs, ISVs and operators to define 
      requirements and ensure that Red Hat Enterprise Linux can be deployed in 
      carrier-grade settings. Red Hat Enterprise Linux has been tested and 
      hardened across thousands of enterprise and telecommunications 
      environments, and it provides the stability, predictability and track 
      record required by the industry. Operators and equipment providers 
      actively participate in the planning and definition of future versions 
      of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and verify that it meets the performance, 
      reliability and security requirements of the industry. Operators also 
      rely on Red Hat's hardware and software certification program to provide 
      the level of structure, process and infrastructure needed to support the 
      telecommunications ecosystem.
    
    
      Red Hat is also instrumental in driving further innovation within the 
      telecommunications industry. Along with other leading telecommunications 
      companies, Red Hat is participating in OPUCE, a European Community 
      Framework Program's Sixth Framework Program (FP6) project designed to 
      deliver the next-generation telecommunication service delivery platform 
      (SDP) for use across the EU. Red Hat and JEMS experts will be 
      responsible for building an open source ecosystem around OPUCE and 
      bringing direct expertise on how to build open source communities and 
      support mission-critical environments based on open source software.
    
    
      To learn more about Red Hat telecommunications solutions, please visit http://www.redhat.com/solutions/teleco. 
      For ISVs interested in partnering, please visit http://www.redhat.com/solutions/partners/. 
      For equipment providers or operators interested in the 
      Telecommunications Partner Program, please email [e-mail].
    
    
      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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      the Company's growth and international operations; adverse results in 
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Red Hat (NASDAQ: RHAT), the world's leading provider of open
source solutions to the enterprise, today announced that, in the past
six months alone, 29 strategic telecommunications independent software
vendors (ISV) have partnered with Red Hat as part of the company's
Telecommunications Partner Program.

   Hundreds of telecommunications software providers already support
Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and this new telecommunications ISV
milestone is further evidence of Red Hat's success in targeting
application providers in industry verticals where open source adoption
is happening rapidly. In collaboration with the ISV, original
equipment manufacturer (OEM) and network equipment provider (NEP)
communities, Red Hat and its partners continue to equip the
telecommunications ecosystem with open platforms and solutions that
are more cost effective and flexible than proprietary alternatives, as
well as meet the stringent availability, reliability and
predictability requirements of the industry.

   "ISVs in the telecommunications industry are choosing Red Hat
because of our long heritage of delivering highly reliable and
valuable solutions, and hundreds of telecommunications software
providers now support Red Hat Enterprise Linux as their deployment
platform of choice," said Tim Yeaton, Senior Vice President of
Enterprise Solutions, Red Hat. "Through Red Hat's Telecommunications
Partner Program, telecommunications software providers are able to
formally certify their products on Red Hat software and can
collaborate with us to promote and validate open platforms for
telecommunications. We are thrilled to work with all of our partners
to move the telecommunications industry forward."

   Telecommunications companies are under increasing pressure to
deliver new and better services that are faster and more cost
efficient. Reliability and stability in infrastructure is paramount.
Expensive and closed proprietary systems, long the norm in the
industry, are being eclipsed by open platforms that are able to
quickly respond to customer needs. Red Hat offers a complete
service-oriented architecture solution, including Red Hat Enterprise
Linux and JBoss Enterprise Middleware Suite (JEMS), to customers,
enabling telecommunications companies to accelerate time-to-market
with flexible, cost-effective solutions. Red Hat solutions can be
deployed faster and more cost effectively than proprietary
alternatives, while also providing greater levels of performance.

   The MATERNA group, a new Red Hat telecommunications partner, is
among the leading independent software companies in Germany's
information and communication technology sector. MATERNA provides
innovative solutions, products and services that are employed in
business and public administration as comprehensive solutions or as
solution modules.

   "MATERNA uses Red Hat Enterprise Linux for many products because
we see a rising demand for Linux-based systems with our customers,"
said Stefan Brandes, Product Marketing Manager, MATERNA. "We see the
benefits of our partnership with Red Hat in the support they deliver,
the regular updates per release and the security patches."

   MobileAware is a Red Hat partner and the world's leading provider
of Mobile Service Infrastructure, a strategic approach for creating
and managing mobile data solutions across all lines of business.
MobileAware provides a unified framework that fully integrates with
existing enterprise service infrastructure to make customers' mobile
strategies a seamless extension of overall business strategies. Mobile
Service Infrastructure simplifies the complexity surrounding disparate
data, device diversity and network convergence, enabling companies to
rapidly launch secure and reliable mobile solutions that leverage
existing business assets and resources.

   "MobileAware views Red Hat Enterprise Linux as a significant
benefit in an ever-increasing number of telecommunications
engagements," said Dr. Rotan Hanrahan, Chief Innovations Architect,
MobileAware. "Partnering with Red Hat affords us early access to
forthcoming product releases, technical support and the confidence
that we fully meet customer demands."

   Red Hat partner RADVISION(R) Technology Business Unit (TBU) is the
leading source of telecommunications software developer tools, such as
SIP and SIP IMS toolkits. RADVISION has hundreds of OEM developer
customers all over the world, including most major telecommunications
equipment vendors.

   "We have constant demand from our equipment and application
development partners to provide our high performance telecommunication
toolkits for the Linux operating system. We applaud Red Hat's partner
program and are happy to cooperate with them strategically in this
important market segment," said Tsahi Levent-Levi, Product Marketing
Manager, RADVISION, TBU. "As operators begin to roll out IMS
deployments, we expect the demand for Linux to grow because of its
rock-solid stability and high performance."

   The Red Hat Telecommunications Partner Program drives awareness
and adoption of carrier-grade server platforms and solutions based on
industry-standard hardware and Red Hat software. The
Telecommunications Partner Program deepens Red Hat's relationships
with leading NEPs, OEMs, telecommunications ISVs and operators, and
packages Red Hat's new and existing capabilities into an integrated
platform that can be easily leveraged across the telecommunications
ecosystem.

   Red Hat works with leading NEPs, ISVs and operators to define
requirements and ensure that Red Hat Enterprise Linux can be deployed
in carrier-grade settings. Red Hat Enterprise Linux has been tested
and hardened across thousands of enterprise and telecommunications
environments, and it provides the stability, predictability and track
record required by the industry. Operators and equipment providers
actively participate in the planning and definition of future versions
of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and verify that it meets the performance,
reliability and security requirements of the industry. Operators also
rely on Red Hat's hardware and software certification program to
provide the level of structure, process and infrastructure needed to
support the telecommunications ecosystem.

   Red Hat is also instrumental in driving further innovation within
the telecommunications industry. Along with other leading
telecommunications companies, Red Hat is participating in OPUCE, a
European Community Framework Program's Sixth Framework Program (FP6)
project designed to deliver the next-generation telecommunication
service delivery platform (SDP) for use across the EU. Red Hat and
JEMS experts will be responsible for building an open source ecosystem
around OPUCE and bringing direct expertise on how to build open source
communities and support mission-critical environments based on open
source software.

   To learn more about Red Hat telecommunications solutions, please
visit http://www.redhat.com/solutions/teleco. For ISVs interested in
partnering, please visit http://www.redhat.com/solutions/partners/.
For equipment providers or operators interested in the
Telecommunications Partner Program, please email [e-mail].

   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.