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Red Hat Launches JBoss Certified ISV Program With 250 Partners

RALEIGH, NC - November 20, 2008 - Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced the expansion of the JBoss Certified ISV Program, which boasts 250 member ISVs. This program, a fully-integrated component of the Red Hat Partner Program, will deliver software, support and cooperative sales and marketing benefits to independent software vendors that integrate their applications with industry-leading JBoss Enterprise platforms and frameworks.

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Fujitsu and Red Hat Strengthen Alliance on Linux Support Services for Mission-Critical Environments

TOKYO and RALEIGH, NC - November 18, 2008 - Fujitsu Limited and Red Hat, Inc. today announced that they have strengthened their global alliance for providing Linux support services for mission-critical environments.

Building on the maintenance and support expertise Fujitsu has cultivated through its mainframe systems, the two companies have jointly developed new Linux support services that are designed to provide quicker response times and extended support periods for mission-critical systems.

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Ernst & Young Names Red Hat's Matthew Szulik Overall National Winner for Entrepreneur of the Year 2008 Award

RALEIGH, NC - November 18, 2008 - Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that Matthew Szulik, Chairman of the Board, has been awarded overall national winner for Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year 2008. This prestigious honor serves as a testament to Szulik's drive and commitment to revolutionizing the enterprise software market through the open source business model.

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Red Hat Delivers Dramatic Cost Savings and Performance to World's Most Demanding Mission-Critical Platforms

RALEIGH, NC - November 18, 2008 - Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced today announced the availability of a groundbreaking global offering combining substantially enhanced service levels with the proven advantages of Linux through the Red Hat Advanced Mission-Critical Program. The worldwide program was designed by Red Hat, with joint collaboration with Fujitsu on the mission-critical support framework, to provide unprecedented service levels, support and decade-long product lifecycles for participating Red Hat Enterprise Linux servers. Many organizations around the world today run their most business-critical applications on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. The Advanced Mission-Critical Program expands the advantages of Enterprise Linux to customers requiring even greater service and support levels.

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Red Hat Named Public Company of the Year by North Carolina Technology Association

RALEIGH, NC - November 18, 2008 - Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced it has been awarded Public Company of the Year by the North Carolina Technology Association (NCTA) in its 2008 NCTA 21 Awards. Companies nominated for this award were evaluated based on sustained growth, solid operating results and stock price appreciation. Red Hat was selected from a finalist pool that included Goodrich Corporation, Lenovo and Tekelec.

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Red Hat Increases Authorization to Repurchase Common Stock

RALEIGH, NC - November 17, 2008 - Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that its Board of Directors has amended the Company's previously announced program for the repurchase of its common stock. Under the program as amended, the Company is authorized to purchase up to an aggregate of $250.0 million of the Company's common stock, without regard to amounts previously repurchased under prior programs.

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Micheline Chau and Jeff Clarke Join Red Hat's Board of Directors

RALEIGH, NC - November 7, 2008 - Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that Micheline Chau, President and COO of Lucasfilm Ltd., and Jeff Clarke, President and CEO of Travelport, Inc., have joined Red Hat's Board of Directors.

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Booz Allen Leverages Red Hat Solutions to Deliver Flexible and Scalable SOA Deployments

RALEIGH, NC - October 29, 2008 - Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that Booz Allen Hamilton, a leading strategy and technology consulting firm, relies on Red Hat solutions to deliver increased scalability and flexibility for its clients' mission-critical systems. Booz Allen recently delivered a solution combining Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Platform, JBoss Enterprise Application Platform and JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform to a government agency client to help it adapt to changes in its IT architecture. Over a one-year period, the client's data processing has increased from 1,000 documents per hour and 18,000 documents per day to more than 10,000 documents per hour and 100,000 documents per day. The number of the client's internal system users also increased 600 percent in the first year that the solution was deployed.

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Salt River Project Migrates to Red Hat Enterprise Linux on IBM Mainframes

RALEIGH, NC - October 22, 2008 - Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that Salt River Project (SRP), one of Arizona's largest utilities providers that delivers power and water to more than 935,000 in the Phoenix metropolitan area, has migrated to Red Hat Enterprise Linux on IBM System z mainframe servers for increased flexibility, manageability, cost savings and boosted performance.

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Red Hat Expands Enterprise SOA Offering with Management and Next-Generation ESB and Rules Features

RALEIGH, NC - October 8, 2008 - Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced the expansion of its enterprise offerings for SOA deployment with the release of JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform 4.3 and JBoss Operations Network 2.1. The newest versions of JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform and JBoss Operations Network will feature cooperative support and will allow for the remote monitoring and management of open source SOA deployments.

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NH Hoteles Selects Red Hat and JBoss Solutions for Its Business-Critical Web Portal

RALEIGH, NC - October 6, 2008 - Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that NH Hoteles, a well-known European business hotel chain with 350 locations across 21 countries, has launched its business-critical web platform based on a combination of Red Hat and JBoss solutions. The NH Hoteles platform was developed using JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, Red Hat Enterprise Linux and JBoss Operations Network.

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Red Hat Delivers First Integrated Linux-Based High Performance Computing Platform

Raleigh, NC - October 2, 2008 - Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced the delivery of the industry's first integrated Linux-based High Performance Computing (HPC) platform with the global availability of the Red Hat HPC Solution, an all-in-one stack that customers can leverage to deploy, run and manage their HPC clusters.

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Red Hat Hosts Fourth Annual Government Users and Developers Conference

Raleigh, NC - October 2, 2008 - Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced the lineup for its fourth annual Government Users and Developers Conference. This year, under the theme of "Today. Tomorrow. Together." Red Hat users and partners will discuss the future of open source in government, share best practices and network with peers at other leading government agencies. The 2008 Red Hat Government Users and Developers Conference, hosted by Carahsoft Technology Corp., is scheduled to take place at the Ronald Reagan Building & International Trade Center in Washington, D.C. on October 7, 2008.

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Red Hat to Present Red Hat Summit and JBoss World Next September, 2009

Raleigh, NC - October 1, 2008 - Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced plans to present the Red Hat Summit and JBoss World at the downtown Hilton Chicago September 1-3, 2009. Red Hat and JBoss customers, partners and community members are invited to attend the co-located events to collaborate on the future of open source technology.

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Red Hat Reports Second Quarter Results

Raleigh, NC - September 24, 2008 - Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced financial results for its fiscal year 2009 second quarter ended August 31, 2008.

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Red Hat Achieves Record-Setting Price and Performance Benchmark

Raleigh, NC - September 23, 2008 - Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that Red Hat Enterprise Linux has achieved a powerful, record-setting TPC-C benchmark that demonstrates the rapid improvements that open source software can bring to overall performance and costs. In its fifth TPC-C result over 1M tpmC, Red Hat improved price performance to a level 20 percent lower than the best competing non-Red-Hat result with a combination of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2 on an IBM System x 3950 M2 with the new Intel X7460 Xeon processor.

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Red Hat Advances Virtualization Leadership with Qumranet, Inc. Acquisition

Raleigh, NC - September 4, 2008 - Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced the acquisition of Qumranet, Inc. The acquisition includes Qumranet's virtualization solutions, including its KVM (Kernel Virtual Machine) platform and SolidICE offering, a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), which together present a comprehensive virtualization platform for enterprise customers. In addition, Qumranet's talented team of professionals that develop, test and support Qumranet solutions, and its leaders of the open source community KVM project, will join Red Hat.

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