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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. 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.