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Red Hat, Inc. (NASDAQ:RHAT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions to the enterprise, today announced that Denkavit Groep, a leading European animal food manufacturer in the Netherlands, has implemented Oracle EnterpriseOne ERP suite running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux across its IT systems. With this migration of key business-critical services, Denkavit is the first European implementation of Oracle EnterpriseOne on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Denkavit�s goal was to create a completely web-based system that links its business processes to those of its many suppliers, customers and partners, and handles extremely high volume of transactions. The migration to Oracle EnterpriseOne running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux includes some of Denkavit�s most important data and custom-built applications, which enable the company to track and trace the raw materials used in their feeds. It is vital for Denkavit to be meticulous in their record-keeping and able to demonstrate exactly where its materials originate, how they have been transported and where they have been stored. �Choosing Red Hat Enterprise Linux on Intel provided our organization with the flexibility to make significant modifications at the operating system level. It gives us full control over aspects like processor priority and performance. Red Hat's operating system conveniently splits out processes, while also optimizing compute time for some of our more 'exotic' processes, greatly enhancing performance,� said Frank van den Hout, Systems and Network Administrator, Denkavit Nederland. �Not only does Red Hat provide rock-solid stability and enhanced ease-of-use for our most business-critical systems, but it has really enabled us to reduce costs. Compared to the other solutions that were under consideration, the choice of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux-based solution will � overall � be less expensive by a factor of four.� The manufacturing company implemented a solution that is a combination of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS, a UDB database and Oracle EnterpriseOne, running on four multiway Intel Xeon-powered HP servers � three HP DL380 servers and one HP DL580 server. Denkavit�s previous IT systems were custom-built solutions, programmed in Rally and Cobol and running on HP Alpha servers, making ongoing support increasingly difficult due to the limited number of skilled IT staff. �As Denkavit�s business has grown, so has the need for a flexible, customizable and scalable platform for its core web applications,� said Werner Knoblich, Vice President of EMEA, Red Hat. �Throughout the whole migration, the primary objective was to build a standardized, easy-to-manage system that maintained all current functionality, safeguarded the continuity of all processes and ensured a flexible, future-proof IT environment. By running Oracle EnterpriseOne on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Denkavit has implemented an enterprise-ready solution backed by the full support and maintenance from Red Hat Network that can scale across its European operations. We�re delighted to have worked with Oracle and Denkavit on this landmark deployment.� After completing the Dutch migration at Denkavit in April 2007, the next phase of the project will include rolling out the new system to the German, Italian, and French offices at the end of 2007. For more information on Red Hat Enterprise solutions, please visit: http://www.redhat.com About Denkavit Groep Since 1929, Denkavit has specialised in the development and production of high-grade feeds, particularly for animals in the first phase of the rearing period. The Denkavit Group is the leading partner for livestock farmers and the compound feed industry in the Netherlands and abroad. Denkavit products are developed and produced on the basis of the results of extensive research in laboratories and in the field (on our own trial farms). This means that they meet the highest quality requirements that apply to feeds for young animals. Learn more: http://www.denkavit.nl/corporate/home.asp?taal=uk 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 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 Denkavit Groep, a leading European animal food manufacturer in the Netherlands, has implemented Oracle EnterpriseOne ERP suite running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux across its IT systems. With this migration of key business-critical services, Denkavit is the first European implementation of Oracle EnterpriseOne on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Denkavit's goal was to create a completely web-based system that links its business processes to those of its many suppliers, customers and partners, and handles extremely high volume of transactions. The migration to Oracle EnterpriseOne running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux includes some of Denkavit's most important data and custom-built applications, which enable the company to track and trace the raw materials used in their feeds. It is vital for Denkavit to be meticulous in their record-keeping and able to demonstrate exactly where its materials originate, how they have been transported and where they have been stored. "Choosing Red Hat Enterprise Linux on Intel provided our organization with the flexibility to make significant modifications at the operating system level. It gives us full control over aspects like processor priority and performance. Red Hat's operating system conveniently splits out processes, while also optimizing compute time for some of our more 'exotic' processes, greatly enhancing performance," said Frank van den Hout, Systems and Network Administrator, Denkavit Nederland. "Not only does Red Hat provide rock-solid stability and enhanced ease-of-use for our most business-critical systems, but it has really enabled us to reduce costs. Compared to the other solutions that were under consideration, the choice of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux-based solution will - overall - be less expensive by a factor of four." The manufacturing company implemented a solution that is a combination of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS, a UDB database and Oracle EnterpriseOne, running on four multiway Intel Xeon-powered HP servers - three HP DL380 servers and one HP DL580 server. Denkavit's previous IT systems were custom-built solutions, programmed in Rally and Cobol and running on HP Alpha servers, making ongoing support increasingly difficult due to the limited number of skilled IT staff. "As Denkavit's business has grown, so has the need for a flexible, customizable and scalable platform for its core web applications," said Werner Knoblich, Vice President of EMEA, Red Hat. "Throughout the whole migration, the primary objective was to build a standardized, easy-to-manage system that maintained all current functionality, safeguarded the continuity of all processes and ensured a flexible, future-proof IT environment. By running Oracle EnterpriseOne on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Denkavit has implemented an enterprise-ready solution backed by the full support and maintenance from Red Hat Network that can scale across its European operations. We're delighted to have worked with Oracle and Denkavit on this landmark deployment." After completing the Dutch migration at Denkavit in April 2007, the next phase of the project will include rolling out the new system to the German, Italian, and French offices at the end of 2007. For more information on Red Hat Enterprise solutions, please visit: http://www.redhat.com About Denkavit Groep Since 1929, Denkavit has specialised in the development and production of high-grade feeds, particularly for animals in the first phase of the rearing period. The Denkavit Group is the leading partner for livestock farmers and the compound feed industry in the Netherlands and abroad. Denkavit products are developed and produced on the basis of the results of extensive research in laboratories and in the field (on our own trial farms). This means that they meet the highest quality requirements that apply to feeds for young animals. Learn more: http://www.denkavit.nl/corporate/home.asp?taal=uk 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 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.