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Red Hat, Inc. (NASDAQ: RHAT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that the company has experienced strong growth in Spain in recent months, with a substantial increase in the number of customers that rely on its open source technology. Companies from multiple sectors, including energy, insurance, financial services, shipping, logistics and public sector are selecting Red Hat solutions to provide stability to their mission critical information systems. �Red Hat is experiencing strong momentum in Spain, where companies are opting for a broad rollout of open source software to benefit from a complete open source architecture, without any hidden costs. Customers are choosing Red Hat for its commitment to interoperability between platforms and reliability of its technology,� said Werner Knoblich, VP of EMEA at Red Hat. In the insurance sector, Union Alcoyana is one of the recent customers that deployed Red Hat Enterprise Linux as the main operating system in a number of IT projects. �We just recently finished our web server project,� explained Jos� Agull�, Programmer Analyst of the insurance company. �We had previously been experiencing hardware compatibility problems and also some issues regarding server security, so a new system was essential. The implementation was a success and working with Red Hat has undoubtedly had very real benefits for our company. This project was the most recent in a long-standing relationship with Red Hat and we continue to rely on their strong support, technical service and product updates.� Arsys, a leading Internet service provider in Spain with regional presence in France and Portugal, announced its migration to Red Hat Enterprise Linux as its main platform to develop and offer secure Internet services to its 120,000 customers across Europe in September this year. By migrating to Red Hat, Arsys benefits from reduced costs and extended support for seven years through the Red Hat Network for updates and patches, as well as the automation of key administrative tasks that will drastically reduce the working hours for the staff maintaining the platforms. The Red Hat Enterprise Linux platform will enable Arsys to provide services such as Apache, PHP, MySQL, Postfix and Cyrus technologies to its customers. �We chose Red Hat because of its combination of leading market position, industry support and certification from the major hardware and software manufacturers, the security and reliability of the platform and the training, support and tools. Taken together, migrating across to Red Hat will help us to ease part of our IT management cycle and allow us to save a considerable amount of time,� commented Manuel Amutio, General Technical Director at Arsys Internet. For more information about Red Hat Enterprise Linux, please visit www.europe.redhat.com About Union Alcoyana Union Alcoyana, Joint Stock Insurance and Reinsurance company, incorporated in 1877 in Alicante. Today, the company operates in the Non-life lines, focusing mainly in three areas: industrial risks, patrimonial protection and patrimonial risks. www.unionalcoyana.es About Arsys With more than 300000 registrar domains and more that 120000 customers, Arsys Internet is the leading web registrar and hosting provider in Spain and holds one of the first places in Europe. The company, with more than 200 employees, provides Internet services to more than 100 countries through arsys.es, arsys.fr and arsys.pt. In 2005, got a �27,6 million turnover, up 18% from prior fiscal year. www.arsys.es 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, today announced that the company has experienced strong growth in Spain in recent months, with a substantial increase in the number of customers that rely on its open source technology. Companies from multiple sectors, including energy, insurance, financial services, shipping, logistics and public sector are selecting Red Hat solutions to provide stability to their mission critical information systems. "Red Hat is experiencing strong momentum in Spain, where companies are opting for a broad rollout of open source software to benefit from a complete open source architecture, without any hidden costs. Customers are choosing Red Hat for its commitment to interoperability between platforms and reliability of its technology," said Werner Knoblich, VP of EMEA at Red Hat. In the insurance sector, Union Alcoyana is one of the recent customers that deployed Red Hat Enterprise Linux as the main operating system in a number of IT projects. "We just recently finished our web server project," explained Jose Agullo, Programmer Analyst of the insurance company. "We had previously been experiencing hardware compatibility problems and also some issues regarding server security, so a new system was essential. The implementation was a success and working with Red Hat has undoubtedly had very real benefits for our company. This project was the most recent in a long-standing relationship with Red Hat and we continue to rely on their strong support, technical service and product updates." Arsys, a leading Internet service provider in Spain with regional presence in France and Portugal, announced its migration to Red Hat Enterprise Linux as its main platform to develop and offer secure Internet services to its 120,000 customers across Europe in September this year. By migrating to Red Hat, Arsys benefits from reduced costs and extended support for seven years through the Red Hat Network for updates and patches, as well as the automation of key administrative tasks that will drastically reduce the working hours for the staff maintaining the platforms. The Red Hat Enterprise Linux platform will enable Arsys to provide services such as Apache, PHP, MySQL, Postfix and Cyrus technologies to its customers. "We chose Red Hat because of its combination of leading market position, industry support and certification from the major hardware and software manufacturers, the security and reliability of the platform and the training, support and tools. Taken together, migrating across to Red Hat will help us to ease part of our IT management cycle and allow us to save a considerable amount of time," commented Manuel Amutio, General Technical Director at Arsys Internet. For more information about Red Hat Enterprise Linux, please visit www.europe.redhat.com About Union Alcoyana Union Alcoyana, Joint Stock Insurance and Reinsurance company, incorporated in 1877 in Alicante. Today, the company operates in the Non-life lines, focusing mainly in three areas: industrial risks, patrimonial protection and patrimonial risks. www.unionalcoyana.es About Arsys With more than 300000 registrar domains and more that 120000 customers, Arsys Internet is the leading web registrar and hosting provider in Spain and holds one of the first places in Europe. The company, with more than 200 employees, provides Internet services to more than 100 countries through arsys.es, arsys.fr and arsys.pt. In 2005, got a EUR 27,6 million turnover, up 18% from prior fiscal year. www.arsys.es 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.