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Red Hat (NASDAQ: RHAT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that strategic members of Red Hat's broad ecosystem of independent software vendors (ISVs) are already supporting and testing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Beta 2 to prepare for Red Hat's next major subscription milestone (announced Friday, November 17). These software partners have begun testing to ensure early certification of their solutions at general availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 this winter and to guarantee that customers can benefit from the new technologies and cost-savings as quickly as possible. "The ISV community is key to Red Hat's success. Over the last 5 years we have worked with the broad ISV community to ensure that customers have as many quality choices as possible when building architectures based on open source," said Tim Yeaton, Senior Vice President of Enterprise Solutions, Red Hat. "Together with the ISV community, we'll continue to have the best depth and breadth of applications for the success of our customers.� Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, to be released in early 2007, is the next major subscription milestone of Red Hat's flagship platform solution. With a continued focus on technologies designed to drive costs out of the infrastructure, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 will be the first solution to deliver complete, integrated, commercial-strength virtualization. The Red Hat ISV Partner Program continues to attract industry-leading solution providers whose applications support the Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system. The goal of the program has been to ensure that there are as many choices as possible for customers building architectures based on open source. Early partners in the program included IBM, Oracle, Computer Associates and BEA Systems. Many existing partners have worked over time to ensure that entire lines of enterprise applications support Red Hat Enterprise Linux. More than 2,000 ISV applications now support Red Hat Enterprise Linux. For more information on Red Hat Enterprise Linux or for a list of compatible applications, please visit: http://www.redhat.com Partner Support Acronis "Our Acronis True Image disk-imaging solution is being tested with new features that are planned for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and it has proven to be an exceptionally robust, powerful, high-performance and flexible Linux platform,� said Zorian Rotenberg director of Business Development at Acronis. �We are committed to developing our products for Red Hat Enterprise Linux and are proud to be a Red Hat partner." BMC "As the leader in Business Service Management, BMC Software helps customers align IT with business priorities and services providing customers with expansive solution offerings that meet their varying IT demands," said Sean Duclaux, director of Product Management, at BMC Software. "BMC Software is committed to providing solutions that help customers lower IT costs, improve business agility and mitigate risk. BMC is working with Red Hat to certify our solutions on the forthcoming Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. Together, we will deliver maximum value to customers combining a Business Service Management approach with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5." Etnus "Etnus is the world's leading provider of debugging and analysis solutions for the multi-core age. Our TotalView family of products enable software engineers to visualize, control and correct complex multi-core applications quickly and easily," said Dick Andersen, vice president of Marketing at Etnus. Dick continued, "With solutions certified on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, we can both concurrently deliver to the market the industry leading products our customers have asked for." Mentor Graphics "As a leader in electronic design solutions serving the world�s most successful electronics and semiconductor companies, Mentor Graphics works constantly to provide customers with the latest technologies," said Rich Monahan, director of IT Engineering Services at Mentor Graphics. Participating in Red Hat�s early access beta program allows us to validate our products on the next Red Hat release and allows our customers to rapidly realize the flexibility, cost-savings and value-adding technologies forthcoming in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5." Opsware "The increasing adoption of Red Hat Linux in data centers is creating more demand for data center automation and management solutions like Opsware's. We are working closely with Red Hat to help customers more rapidly adopt the new subscription release and realize the cost savings that will be offered by Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 in combination with Opsware's automated management," said Tim Howes, CTO of Opsware Inc. Platform Computing "Linux and Open Source is an important part of our grid and virtualization business today and we see it as a significant part of our business tomorrow and as such have begun early testing with the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 beta," said Chris Purpura, vice president of Strategic Alliances and New Ventures at Platform Computing. "Our partnership with Red Hat is important to our customers because we're able to provide a broad range of closed and open-source solutions like Platform Enterprise Grid Orchestrator and Platform Open Cluster Stack that bring tremendous value to their distributed Linux environments." Scalix Scalix Corporation, a recognized leader in providing Linux-based messaging to enterprises, said the partnership between Red Hat and Scalix has been a winning combination for its customers. "Red Hat Enterprise Linux has been a standard platform for Scalix's customers for years," said Glenn Winokur, Scalix's Chief Executive Officer. "Scalix is actively working with Red Hat to ensure that our customers can quickly adopt this new subscription release with a fully compatible Scalix solution. Scalix and Red Hat are providing an integrated open source solution for customers today, making it possible for more customers to switch from Microsoft to our highly scalable, reliable and rich Linux messaging alternative." Sybase "Sybase and Red Hat have been working together to provide enterprise-class data management solutions on Linux," said Herman Li, vice president of Engineering at Sybase. "Many Sybase products run on Linux and with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. Sybase can extend its lower cost-of-ownership value proposition to our Linux customers." 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. Red Hat (NASDAQ: RHAT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that strategic members of Red Hat's broad ecosystem of independent software vendors (ISVs) are already supporting and testing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Beta 2 to prepare for Red Hat's next major subscription milestone (announced Friday, November 17). These software partners have begun testing to ensure early certification of their solutions at general availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 this winter and to guarantee that customers can benefit from the new technologies and cost-savings as quickly as possible. "The ISV community is key to Red Hat's success. Over the last 5 years we have worked with the broad ISV community to ensure that customers have as many quality choices as possible when building architectures based on open source," said Tim Yeaton, Senior Vice President of Enterprise Solutions, Red Hat. "Together with the ISV community, we'll continue to have the best depth and breadth of applications for the success of our customers." Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, to be released in early 2007, is the next major subscription milestone of Red Hat's flagship platform solution. With a continued focus on technologies designed to drive costs out of the infrastructure, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 will be the first solution to deliver complete, integrated, commercial-strength virtualization. The Red Hat ISV Partner Program continues to attract industry-leading solution providers whose applications support the Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system. The goal of the program has been to ensure that there are as many choices as possible for customers building architectures based on open source. Early partners in the program included IBM, Oracle, Computer Associates and BEA Systems. Many existing partners have worked over time to ensure that entire lines of enterprise applications support Red Hat Enterprise Linux. More than 2,000 ISV applications now support Red Hat Enterprise Linux. For more information on Red Hat Enterprise Linux or for a list of compatible applications, please visit: http://www.redhat.com Partner Support Acronis "Our Acronis True Image disk-imaging solution is being tested with new features that are planned for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and it has proven to be an exceptionally robust, powerful, high-performance and flexible Linux platform," said Zorian Rotenberg director of Business Development at Acronis. "We are committed to developing our products for Red Hat Enterprise Linux and are proud to be a Red Hat partner." BMC "As the leader in Business Service Management, BMC Software helps customers align IT with business priorities and services providing customers with expansive solution offerings that meet their varying IT demands," said Sean Duclaux, director of Product Management, at BMC Software. "BMC Software is committed to providing solutions that help customers lower IT costs, improve business agility and mitigate risk. BMC is working with Red Hat to certify our solutions on the forthcoming Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. Together, we will deliver maximum value to customers combining a Business Service Management approach with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5." Etnus "Etnus is the world's leading provider of debugging and analysis solutions for the multi-core age. Our TotalView family of products enable software engineers to visualize, control and correct complex multi-core applications quickly and easily," said Dick Andersen, vice president of Marketing at Etnus. Dick continued, "With solutions certified on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, we can both concurrently deliver to the market the industry leading products our customers have asked for." Mentor Graphics "As a leader in electronic design solutions serving the world's most successful electronics and semiconductor companies, Mentor Graphics works constantly to provide customers with the latest technologies," said Rich Monahan, director of IT Engineering Services at Mentor Graphics. Participating in Red Hat's early access beta program allows us to validate our products on the next Red Hat release and allows our customers to rapidly realize the flexibility, cost-savings and value-adding technologies forthcoming in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5." Opsware "The increasing adoption of Red Hat Linux in data centers is creating more demand for data center automation and management solutions like Opsware's. We are working closely with Red Hat to help customers more rapidly adopt the new subscription release and realize the cost savings that will be offered by Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 in combination with Opsware's automated management," said Tim Howes, CTO of Opsware Inc. Platform Computing "Linux and Open Source is an important part of our grid and virtualization business today and we see it as a significant part of our business tomorrow and as such have begun early testing with the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 beta," said Chris Purpura, vice president of Strategic Alliances and New Ventures at Platform Computing. "Our partnership with Red Hat is important to our customers because we're able to provide a broad range of closed and open-source solutions like Platform Enterprise Grid Orchestrator and Platform Open Cluster Stack that bring tremendous value to their distributed Linux environments." Scalix Scalix Corporation, a recognized leader in providing Linux-based messaging to enterprises, said the partnership between Red Hat and Scalix has been a winning combination for its customers. "Red Hat Enterprise Linux has been a standard platform for Scalix's customers for years," said Glenn Winokur, Scalix's Chief Executive Officer. "Scalix is actively working with Red Hat to ensure that our customers can quickly adopt this new subscription release with a fully compatible Scalix solution. Scalix and Red Hat are providing an integrated open source solution for customers today, making it possible for more customers to switch from Microsoft to our highly scalable, reliable and rich Linux messaging alternative." Sybase "Sybase and Red Hat have been working together to provide enterprise-class data management solutions on Linux," said Herman Li, vice president of Engineering at Sybase. "Many Sybase products run on Linux and with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. Sybase can extend its lower cost-of-ownership value proposition to our Linux customers." 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.