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Raleigh, NC - August 30, 2010 - Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced General H. Hugh Shelton (U.S. Army Retired) has been elected to serve as chairman of Red Hat's board of directors. A member of Red Hat's board of directors since April 2003, General Shelton previously held the position of Lead Director and currently serves on the Audit and Compensation Committees. He succeeds Matthew Szulik, former Red Hat CEO.
Raleigh, NC - August 30, 2010 - Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that Euronet Service India Pvt. Limited (Euronet) is powering its IT infrastructure, including its business-critical Card Management System application, on Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization and Red Hat Enterprise Linux. After migrating from Microsoft Windows to the combined Red Hat solution, Euronet has achieved increased flexibility, decreased hardware and power costs, reduced system maintenance needs and increased scalability and performance with its virtualized infrastructure.
Raleigh, NC - August 30, 2010 - Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that Growing Opportunity, a micro-finance organization in India dedicated to helping the working poor escape poverty, has deployed its mission-critical applications, including its portfolio management application and mail server, on Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization and Red Hat Enterprise Linux. With this combination of Red Hat solutions, Growing Opportunity has reduced the total cost of ownership of its IT infrastructure by fifty percent and has achieved expanded performance and scalability for its systems.
Raleigh, NC - August 30, 2010 - Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that Policlinico San Marco, a health services provider in Italy, has standardized its mission-critical infrastructure on Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization and Red Hat Enterprise Linux. The organization migrated from Citrix XenServer on Microsoft Windows to the Red Hat combination on Dell servers to achieve heightened performance, security and scalability.
Raleigh, NC - August 30, 2010 - Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that Ganart Technologies, a global provider of reserved and compliant cloud processing for financial information and transactions, is running its critical financial transaction cloud datacenter on a combination of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization and Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Raleigh, NC - August 25, 2010 - Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced developments in its Cloud Foundations portfolio that will promote consistency between enterprise applications and the cloud. Red Hat is the only open source vendor capable of delivering an open source, flexible cloud stack, incorporating operating system, middleware and virtualization. Furthermore, this stack is designed to run consistently across physical servers, virtual platforms, private clouds and public clouds. Red Hat's comprehensive solution set enables interoperability and portability.
Raleigh, NC - August 25, 2010 - Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced its vision for a comprehensive Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) solution as part of its Cloud Foundations, a portfolio that will promote consistency between enterprise applications and the cloud. Red Hat is the only vendor that has the infrastructure capable of delivering an open source, flexible cloud stack, incorporating operating system, middleware and virtualization. Based on JBoss Enterprise Middleware, Red Hat PaaS is designed to be the solution within the portfolio that will allow enterprises, cloud service providers, ISVs and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) providers to take existing assets and develop new applications and deploy them to a wide range of public and private clouds.
Raleigh, NC - August 25, 2010 - Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that it has submitted the API specification for Apache Deltacloud to the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) as part of its participation in the DMTF Cloud Management Work Group. Red Hat's submission to DMTF is a step forward in the company's effort to offer users of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) clouds the benefits of portability across cloud computing deployments.
Raleigh, NC - August 25, 2010 - Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced developments in its Cloud Foundations portfolio that promotes consistency between enterprise applications and the cloud. Red Hat is the only vendor that has the infrastructure capable of delivering an open source, flexible cloud stack, incorporating operating system, middleware and virtualization. Furthermore, this stack is designed to run consistently across physical servers, virtual platforms, private clouds and public clouds. Red Hat's comprehensive solution set enables interoperability and portability, recognizing that customers have IT architectures composed of many different hardware and software components from various vendors. Cloud Foundations is offering capabilities that allow customers to use multiple clouds effectively.
Raleigh, NC - August 2, 2010 - Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today highlights its leadership in open source desktop development with its ranking as the top corporate contributor to the GNOME project. In a census study published last week by Neary Consulting at GUADEC, currently running in The Hague, Netherlands, Red Hat placed first among the total 106 companies that have contributed to GNOME development over the past 10 years with nearly 17 percent of the total code commits. The study also showed that nine out of the top 20 contributors are Red Hat employees.
Red Hat Summit & JBoss World - Boston, MA - June 24, 2010 - Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced the general availability of its next-generation portal solution, JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform 5.0. The advent of JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform 5.0 marks the next stage in Red Hat's goal of providing the industry's most comprehensive portfolio of middleware products. Organizations worldwide now have a flexible, open source alternative for building, deploying, integrating and managing on-premise and cloud-based applications.
Red Hat Summit & JBoss World - Boston, MA - June 23, 2010 - Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced new offerings, ecosystem infrastructure and services designed to provide CIOs with a comprehensive, easy on-ramp to cloud computing. The company announces the expansion of development services that provide customers with the tools and expertise needed to deploy and manage cloud environments as well as enhancements to the Red Hat Premier Certified Cloud Provider Program.
Red Hat Summit & JBoss World - Boston, MA - June 23, 2010 - Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced the next step in the integration of its enterprise-grade server and desktop virtualization portfolio with the general availability of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 2.2. In addition to providing the first release of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for Desktops, the 2.2 update includes new scalability capabilities, migration tools and features to expand the performance and security of the solution.
Red Hat Summit & JBoss World - Boston, MA - June 23, 2010 - Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, and Cisco, the worldwide leader in networking, today announced the expansion of their virtualization collaboration with the integration of Cisco Virtual Network Link (VN-Link) technology with Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization. With this integration, Red Hat and Cisco customers will have an opportunity to achieve higher performance, greater network visibility and control and a reduced total cost of ownership for their datacenter virtualization deployments.
Red Hat - Raleigh, NC - June 22, 2010 - Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced financial results for its fiscal year 2011 first quarter ended May 31, 2010.
Red Hat - Raleigh, NC - June 22, 2010 - Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced it has been named to the Bloomberg BusinessWeek 50. In its fourteenth year, this list recognizes the 50 companies in the Standard and Poor's 500 stock index with the best total returns for shareholders over the last five years as of March 31, 2010. Red Hat ranked 22nd on this list of top-performing companies.
Red Hat Summit & JBoss World - Boston, MA - June 22, 2010 - Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced enhancements to its customer experience and subscription value with the general availability of a new global customer portal. Available to all worldwide Red Hat customers as an added benefit of their Red Hat subscription, the portal is designed to provide customers with a premium experience for accessing Red Hat knowledge and software across product lines and to encourage engagement with Red Hat to expand customer success with Red Hat solutions. The new customer portal will allow Red Hat customers to participate in and benefit from communities of users and experts. It is another important step in Red Hat's leadership delivering more value through open source subscriptions and helping to transform enterprise IT from a costly, inflexible proprietary development model to the greater innovation and flexibility offered by open source software.
Red Hat Summit & JBoss World - Boston, MA - June 22, 2010 - Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that Amdocs, a market leader in customer experience systems innovation, has selected Red Hat Enterprise Linux as the recommended Linux platform for Amdocs offerings. As such, Amdocs will expand the use of Red Hat Enterprise Linux across its development environment in an effort to increase flexibility, enhance performance and drive cost savings.
Red Hat Summit & JBoss World - Boston, MA - June 21, 2010 - Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that NYSE Euronext (NYX), the leading and most liquid equities exchange group in the world, has standardized on Red Hat's JBoss Enterprise Middleware. Moving from proprietary application servers to an open source reference architecture has fueled cost savings, simplicity, integration and performance gains across NYSE Euronext's infrastructure. Further, the company leveraged the open source development model before deploying on JBoss Enterprise Middleware.
Red Hat Summit & JBoss World - Boston, MA - June 21, 2010 - Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced the global launch of the Red Hat Partner Center, an online community and resource center for Red Hat Business Partners. The Center features a single portal for partners to access sales enablement tools including targeted marketing materials on cloud services, virtualization, platform and middleware solutions. The portal also includes an integrated case submission feature, deal registration, subscription management, training resources, specialization requests and upgrades, as well as an interactive online forum where partners can actively offer continuous feedback.
Red Hat Summit & JBoss World - Boston, MA - June 21, 2010 - Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced the 2010 recipients of its annual Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) of the Year contest. Red Hat's RHCE® of the Year contest is a celebration of the hard work, expertise and ingenuity that winners have demonstrated to help innovate and drive IT results.
Raleigh, N.C. - June 16, 2010 - Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced the finalists in its fourth annual Red Hat and JBoss Innovation Awards. The awards are designed to recognize the outstanding use, innovation and extension of Red Hat's platform and middleware solutions by customers, partners and the open source community. From the finalists, one Red Hat Innovator of the Year and one JBoss Innovator of the Year will each be selected via online voting, and announced during the Red Hat Summit and JBoss World in Boston on June 25, 2010.
RALEIGH, NC - June 14, 2010 - Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that Etisalat Sri Lanka has adopted Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization as the foundation for its critical IT infrastructure that services 2.4 million subscribers across the island nation's cellular network, inventory management and distribution services for 30,000 retail outlets. With Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, Etisalat Sri Lanka has gained expanded scalability, operational efficiency and performance for its systems.
Etisalat Sri Lanka previously maintained a heterogeneous IT infrastructure with solutions from various vendors that each presented different levels of management complexity for its IT team. As Etisalat Sri Lanka's business continued to expand, its IT team was faced with the challenge of procuring new hardware to address growth within short deadlines. Recurring fees for renewing licenses, rising power costs and shrinking space to accommodate new hardware was also a challenge.
RALEIGH, NC - June 10, 2010 - Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that Netherlands hosting company Oxilion has launched a virtual datacenter service for its customers using Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization as its foundational virtualization technology. Oxilion customers now have the advantages of a highly flexible, scalable and cost-effective environment with the freedom to manage their own infrastructure over the Internet.
RALEIGH, NC - June 1, 2010 - Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that Basefarm, one of Northern Europe's leading suppliers of Internet-based operations and services, is migrating its CentOS-based systems to Red Hat Enterprise Linux. With its migration, Basefarm gains the value of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux subscription, including reliable support, a robust certified ecosystem and access to the latest tested and quality-controlled Red Hat Enterprise Linux technology.
RALEIGH, NC - May 25, 2010 - The Fedora Project, a Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT) sponsored and community-supported open source collaboration, today announced the availability of Fedora 13, the latest version of its free open source operating system distribution. Fedora 13 combines some of the latest open source features with an open and transparent development process. Fedora 13 includes a variety of features and improvements to enhance desktop productivity, assist in software development, and improve virtualization.
RALEIGH, NC - May 18, 2010 - Red Hat, Inc (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced a significant increase in the number of Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) that have certified their applications with JBoss Enterprise Middleware platforms. Since launching its JBoss Certified ISV Program at the end of 2008, Red Hat has seen the number of certified ISV applications rise to over 500. The increase in certified applications from Red Hat's growing ISV community is one sign of customer interest in enterprise-class open source middleware.
RALEIGH, NC - May 12, 2010 - Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that the Ministry of Electricity & Water (MEW) in Kuwait plans to migrate its datacenter infrastructure from Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 to Red Hat Enterprise Linux. MEW has selected Red Hat Enterprise Linux as the basis for its long-term IT strategy based on the platform's ease of use, performance, scalability and security, and plans to run its mission-critical systems on the platform.
RALEIGH, NC - May 11, 2010 - The Fedora Project, a Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT) sponsored and community-supported open source collaboration, today announced that Ian Weller is the recipient of the 2010 Fedora Scholarship. Now in its third year, the Fedora Scholarship recognizes college and university-bound students across the globe for their contributions to free software and the Fedora Project. Weller has contributed to Fedora for more than two years as a packager and designer, and has also played an integral role in Fedora's project-wide transition to a new wiki system in 2009.
RALEIGH, NC - May 4, 2010 - Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, sponsors "Open Your World," an online virtual forum highlighting the open source ideals of participation, collaboration, community, transparency and meritocracy as they are applied beyond the technology industry. "Open Your World" will be held on Thursday, May 27, 2010 and will be accessible via webcast. The forum is presented by opensource.com, a website launched by Red Hat in January 2010 as a place to explore and share what happens when the open source way is applied to the world at large.
RALEIGH, NC - May 3, 2010 - Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that IBM will be the Premier Sponsor of Red Hat Summit in Boston, June 22-25, 2010, including full sponsorship of the Cloud Computing Track. Additionally, Dr. Kristof Kloeckner, CTO of Cloud of Computing for IBM, will deliver a partner keynote address which will focus on current cloud computing initiatives and the future of cloud computing in the software industry.
RALEIGH, NC - April 30, 2010 - Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, announced that today a jury in federal court in Marshall, Texas, returned a verdict in favor of Red Hat, Inc. and Novell, Inc. in a case alleging patent infringement brought by IP Innovation LLC, a subsidary of Acacia Research Corporation and Technology Licensing Corporation.
RALEIGH, NC - April 29, 2010 - Red Hat, the world's leading open source solutions provider and a component of the S&P 500, is headquartered in Raleigh, NC with over 65 offices spanning the globe. CIOs ranked Red Hat as one of the top vendors delivering value in Enterprise Software for six consecutive years in the CIO Insight Magazine Vendor Value survey. Red Hat provides high-quality, affordable technology with its operating system platform, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, together with virtualization, applications, management and Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) solutions, including Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization and JBoss Enterprise Middleware. Red Hat also offers support, training and consulting services to its customers worldwide.
RALEIGH, NC - April 28, 2010 - Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced another endorsement of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization as a foundational technology for clouds. NTT Communications (NTT Com) in Japan has built its new cloud computing and hosting service offering, BizHosting Basic, on Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization and has become a Red Hat Premier Certified Cloud Provider. In addition, Red Hat Enterprise Linux will be offered as a guest operating system for the new NTT Com service.
Raleigh, NC - April 27, 2010 - Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), a leading provider of open source solutions, today announced an expanded offering on Amazon Web Services LLC in an effort to provide enterprises with a more efficient way to reduce costs, drive innovation and improve business agility with cloud computing. Amazon Web Services is the first Red Hat Premier Certified Cloud Provider that enables customers to extend their Red Hat Enterprise Linux subscriptions into the cloud simply and easily with Red Hat Cloud Access.
CED Venture 2010 - Pinehurst, NC - April 20, 2010 - Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that President and CEO, Jim Whitehurst, will deliver the keynote address at the CED Venture 2010 conference. Hosted by CED, formerly the Council for Entrepreneurial Development, the Venture conference has created business opportunities for hundreds of entrepreneurs and investors across North Carolina and the Southeast.
RALEIGH, NC - March 30, 2010 - Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced the availability of the fifth update to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 platform, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.5. Adding features designed to operate across physical, virtual and cloud deployments, the update offers enhanced virtualization and interoperability capabilities combined with support for important new hardware platforms. As with all Red Hat updates, application compatibility and certification with the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 platform is fully maintained, meaning the broad portfolio of certified applications for Red Hat Enterprise Linux applies to the new update. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.5 is available to subscribing customers via Red Hat Network today.
RALEIGH, NC - March 24, 2010 - Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced financial results for its fiscal fourth quarter and fiscal year ended February 28, 2010.
ECLIPSECON - Santa Clara, CA - March 23, 2010 - Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that it will host the first online virtual forum, Middleware2020, to discuss the future use of middleware in enterprise IT. The virtual forum will be held on Tuesday, April 13, 2010 from 11am EST-4pm EST and will be accessible via webcast. Audience members will hear presentations from industry leaders and will be encouraged to interact with the presenters through live question and answers sessions.
ECLIPSECON - Santa Clara, CA - March 23, 2010 - Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced the general availability of JBoss Enterprise Web Platform 5.0, which is designed specifically to support the next generation of lightweight Java applications. JBoss Enterprise Web Platform 5.0 is the third and final component of JBoss Open Choice, Red Hat's middleware strategy to deliver a choice of Java application server solutions that address the variety of programming styles used in today's business applications.
ECLIPSECON - SANTA CLARA, CA - March 22, 2010 - Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced the launch of JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform 5.0. with enhanced functionality to update its JBoss Enterprise Middleware portfolio. JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform 5.0 is a comprehensive platform designed to integrate applications, services, transactions and business process components into an architecture for automating business and IT processes.
RALEIGH, NC - March 22, 2010 - Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that Red Hat Enterprise Linux was selected by Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE) as the standard operating platform for its next-generation "arrowhead" trading system. Developed by TSE and Red Hat strategic partner FUJITSU LIMITED (Fujitsu), the "arrowhead" platform was designed to accelerate TSE's order response and information distribution speeds to bring a new level of execution to the Tokyo stock market.
RALEIGH, NC - March 16, 2010 - Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that IBM has selected Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization as a platform in its new cloud computing service for development and test.
RALEIGH, NC - March 15, 2010 - Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that registration is now open for the 2010 Red Hat Summit and JBoss World. The Red Hat Summit and JBoss World are considered to be among the premier open source events for attendees to learn about the latest in open source cloud computing, platform, virtualization, middleware and management technologies. Both events are co-located in Boston at the Seaport World Trade Center and will take place June 22-25, 2010.
RALEIGH, NC - March 15, 2010 - Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that the Symbian Foundation, a global non-profit organization formed to foster an open source community around its mobile device software, has adopted Red Hat Enterprise Linux to provide a scalable, high-performance base for its private, cloud-based developer website and server.
RALEIGH, NC - March 15, 2010 - Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that President and CEO, Jim Whitehurst, will deliver the opening keynote address at Open Source Business Conference (OSBC) 2010. OSBC brings together open source vendors, customers, partners and community members to share strategies and hear the most current thinking on open source from the top experts in the field.
RALEIGH, NC - March 10, 2010 - Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that Swedish internet company Voddler has standardized its movie service on Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization. Voddler has also selected Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat Network Satellite as the basis for its new infrastructure, providing the company with a centralized and scalable server platform.
RALEIGH, NC - March 3, 2010 - Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that Deutsche Börse Systems, the IT division of Deutsche Börse AG, is implementing Red Hat Enterprise MRG with the open Advanced Messaging Queuing Protocol (AMQP) standard and Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Both are designed to enable realtime transaction risk management for its financial services clients. AMQP, an open standard messaging protocol, is an integral part of Red Hat Enterprise MRG, a next-generation IT infrastructure incorporating messaging, realtime and grid functionality that is well-suited for cloud computing environments.
RALEIGH, NC - February 15, 2010 - Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE:RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced the launch of its fourth annual Red Hat Innovation awards to be presented at the 2010 Red Hat Summit and JBoss World, co-located in Boston, June 22-25, 2010. The Innovation Awards recognize and honor the creative use of Red Hat and JBoss solutions by customers, partners and the community.
RALEIGH, NC - January 20, 2010 - Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that Millennium Global Investments (MGI), a specialist in developing and managing alternative investment products for institutional investors, has selected JBoss Enterprise BRMS (Business Rules Management System) for its mission-critical business rules repository.
RALEIGH, NC - November 17, 2009 - The Fedora Project, a Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT) sponsored and community-supported open source collaboration, today announced the availability of Fedora 12, the latest version of its free open source operating system distribution. Fedora 12 includes a robust feature set for desktop users, administrators, developers and open source enthusiasts alike. New enhancements available in Fedora 12 include next-generation Ogg Theora video, virtualization improvements and advancements to NetworkManager, among numerous others.
RALEIGH, NC - November 16, 2009 - Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced it has been named Large Technology Company of the Year by the North Carolina Technology Association (NCTA) in its 2009 NCTA 21 Awards. The criteria for this award include annual revenue of more than $100 million, market leadership, employment growth, innovation and profit margin. Other finalists in the Large Technology Company category included Epic Games, Inc., Microsoft Corporation and Tekelec.
RALEIGH, NC - November 16, 2009 - Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced it will host the annual Red Hat Summit and JBoss World event in Boston, June 22-25. Each year Red Hat brings together customers, partners, technologists and open source enthusiasts to explore and discuss solutions to global technology challenges.
RALEIGH, NC - November 11, 2009 - Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that Standard & Poor's (S&P) Rating Services raised Red Hat's corporate credit rating from 'BB' to 'BB+' on Nov. 10, 2009. This upgrade reflects Red Hat's strong performance and consistent growth during a challenging global economic environment.
RALEIGH, NC - November 11, 2009 - Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, and Red Hat Advanced Business Partner, Int3s, today announced that Toronto Hydro Corporation has deployed JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform and Red Hat Enterprise Linux as the platform for its innovative Smart Meter program and has successfully completed the initial phases of its program to create a customer-focused cost and energy-saving initiative.
RALEIGH, NC - November 9, 2009 - Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that it has been positioned in the Leaders Quadrant in Gartner, Inc.'s "Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Application Servers". The Gartner Magic Quadrant represents Gartner's judgment of vendors' ability to execute and the completeness of their vision in a technology market (in this case, the enterprise application server market), and Red Hat believes this recognition is further validation of its JBoss Enterprise Middleware strategy and acceptance in the market.
RALEIGH, NC - November 5, 2009 - Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced momentum in support for high-end workloads on Linux with the expansion of its Advanced Mission-Critical Program offering for customers. Long-time Red Hat partner Hitachi Ltd., a leading global electronics company with headquarters in Tokyo, Japan, has joined the Advanced Mission-Critical Program and will offer expanded services for mission-critical customers in Japan in collaboration with Red Hat.
RALEIGH, NC - November 3, 2009 - Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced the general availability of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for Servers, the newest product set in the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization portfolio. Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for Servers is designed to enable pervasive adoption of virtualization, with a comprehensive end-to-end solution combining a standalone hypervisor and powerful virtualization management.
RALEIGH, NC - October 20, 2009 - Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that it has received the highest rank among software vendors in Ziff Davis' 2009 "CIO Insight Vendor Value" study, which polls IT executives on the value of their vendors' product and service offerings. This is the fifth time the company has received the top rank among software vendors. In addition, Red Hat received the highest rank among software companies on the overall list of IT vendors across software, networking, hardware and security.
RALEIGH, NC - October 20, 2009 - Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that President and CEO, Jim Whitehurst, will deliver a keynote address at the 8th annual Fuqua School of Business & Coach K Leadership Conference. Hosted by the Fuqua/Coach K Center of Leadership & Ethics (COLE), the conference will bring together industry leaders from finance, consulting, sports, entertainment, government and technology in an interactive conference focused on business leadership.
RALEIGH, NC - October 12, 2009 - Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, and IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that Banco Pastor, the seventh largest Spanish banking group with 650 branch offices in Spain and a presence in the US and the main capital cities in Europe and Latin America, has migrated its critical human resources and corporate emailing systems running SAP NetWeaver® and SAP ERP and IBM Lotus Notes for Collaboration software to Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Through a combination of Red Hat Enterprise Linux on IBM System z10, Banco Pastor has experienced decreased annual IT costs of 30 percent for the platform supporting its emailing system, improved performance and increased scalability for the platforms running its SAP and IBM Lotus Notes applications.
RALEIGH, NC - October 7, 2009 - Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that customers can now deploy fully supported virtualization environments that combine Microsoft Windows Server and Red Hat Enterprise Linux. In response to customer demand for interoperability in their IT environments, Red Hat and Microsoft have completed testing and validation for mutual customers using server virtualization. Joint support from Red Hat and Microsoft for these configurations is available today.
RALEIGH, NC - October 1, 2009 - Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced it has filed an amicus brief with the United States Supreme Court. In the brief, Red Hat explains the practical problems of software patents to software developers. The brief, filed in the Bilski case, asks the Supreme Court to adopt the lower court's machine-or-transformation test and to make clear that it excludes software from patentability.
RALEIGH, NC - September 30, 2009 - Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that Ministerio de Vivienda, Peru's Ministry of Housing, Construction and Sanitation, has implemented Red Hat Enterprise Linux as the operating platform for its new open source communications solution, Zimbra Collaboration Suite.
RALEIGH, NC - September 23, 2009 - Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced financial results for its fiscal year 2010 second quarter ended August 31, 2009.
RALEIGH, NC - September 22, 2009 - Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG (Heidelberg), the world's leading solution provider for the print media industry, built an interactive customer portal, www.MyHeidelberg.com, using JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform to create an interactive site to enhance its customer relationships and provide a unified global brand presence. With the successful portal project, Heidelberg has since migrated its proprietary application platform to JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, in order to reduce costs, and increase the performance of its web applications.
RED HAT SUMMIT, CHICAGO - Sept. 3, 2009 - Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, and HP today expanded their collaboration to drive the next generation of converged server, storage and networking infrastructure solutions with the launch of open source software designed to improve administrator productivity, lower costs and maximize resource utilization.
RED HAT SUMMIT, CHICAGO - Sept. 2, 2009 - Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced the availability of the fourth update to its Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 platform, providing the delivery of technology enhancements to customers via the company's subscription model. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4 is the foundation of the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization portfolio of solutions and delivers expanded virtualization capabilities with the inclusion of kernel-based virtual machine (KVM) technology and IntelŽ Virtualization Technology for Directed I/O (IntelŽ VT-d) and PCI-SIG SR-IOV, allowing multiple virtual machines in an IntelŽ XeonŽ Processor 5500 Series-based platform to directly share I/O devices. While continuing to deliver a broad ecosystem of certified hardware and software to customers, the release also features improved I/O throughput and the inclusion of additional tools for developers.
RED HAT SUMMIT, CHICAGO - Sept. 2, 2009 - Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that its previously announced portal project, GateIn has been launched in the JBoss Community and is now available for download and developer contribution. The GateIn project is the next generation of both the JBoss Portal and the eXo Portal projects. This is the first major deliverable based upon the JBoss and eXo collaboration that began earlier in the year. Additionally, the JBoss portal community has been extended beyond the GateIn Project to include a number of strategic partnerships with Alfresco, JasperSoft and RivetLogic. Ultimately, the GateIn project is intended to form the foundation for Red Hat's future portal infrastructure products and aims to enable organizations to create rich portal-based application experiences for users.
Red Hat Summit & JBoss World - Chicago, IL - September 2, 2009 - Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced the availability of Red Hat Network Satellite 5.3, the latest version of Red Hat's on-premises systems management solution that provides software updates, configuration management, provisioning and monitoring across both physical and virtual Red Hat Enterprise Linux servers. Red Hat Network Satellite 5.3 is globally available today and is automatically delivered to customers with a Red Hat Network Satellite subscription. The availability of Red Hat Network Satellite 5.3 marks the first release based off of the open source project Spacewalk, announced in June 2008.
Red Hat Summit & JBoss World - Chicago, IL - September 1, 2009 - Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today delivered on its JBoss Open Choice strategy and announced availability of JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5.0. This core middleware product represents next generation Java application platforms and will be integral to Red Hat's cloud foundation.
Red Hat Summit & JBoss World - Chicago, IL - September 1, 2009 - Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced the North American launch of the Red Hat Catalyst Program, aimed at leveraging all of Red Hat's routes to market through a collaborative and innovative marketing program that plans to include an interactive web portal to facilitate the formation of a community around Red Hat's entire partner ecosystem.
Red Hat Summit & JBoss World - Chicago, IL - September 1, 2009 - Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that it has gifted a grant to Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science (SCS) to create a state-of-the-art, open source computer laboratory. The laboratory, which will be officially dedicated later this year, will be available to all students, faculty and staff to promote the development and use of free and open source software.
Red Hat Summit & JBoss World - Chicago, IL - August 31, 2009 - Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that Derek Chan, Head of Digital Operations for DreamWorks Animation, will keynote at the Red Hat Summit in Chicago, Sept. 1-4, 2009. Chan will discuss how DreamWorks Animation has leveraged cloud computing technologies to complete numerous films over the past several years. From the early days of "Antz," "Shrek2" and "Madagascar" to upcoming films such as "How to Train Your Dragon" and "Shrek Forever After" cloud computing technologies have been crucial to providing the compute resources required to create these films.
Red Hat Summit & JBoss World - Chicago, IL - August 31, 2009 - Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that Sensei Inc. has standardized its IT infrastructure on JBoss Enterprise Middleware and Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Since migrating from Microsoft Windows, the scalable joint Red Hat and JBoss solution has helped Sensei Inc. to significantly carve out infrastructure and development costs, and gain more flexibility when deploying applications. Red Hat solutions have allowed Sensei to provide better interactive dialog and wider exposure, (currently supported on over 300 mobile phones) to its customers in its flagship product, Sensei for Weight Loss, a virtual dietitian that creates a holistic tailored weight loss plan including grocery lists, meals and exercise routines. Sensei CIO, Tim Dion will highlight details of his organization's Red Hat deployment in a customer panel keynote at JBoss World on Thursday, September 3, 2009.
RALEIGH, NC - August 24, 2009 - Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that Cisco will be the Visionary Sponsor of the Red Hat Summit in Chicago Sept. 1 through 4. Additionally, Mark Fulgham, vice president of marketing, Data Center Solutions for Cisco, will provide a partner keynote speech at the event on Sept. 3, which will address the market transition of datacenter virtualization and cloud computing. Fulgham joins other confirmed keynote speakers including, Jim Whitehurst, President and CEO, Red Hat; Brian Stevens, CTO and Vice President, Engineering, Red Hat; and Steve Rubinow, CIO, New York Stock Exchange Euronext.
RALEIGH, NC - August 19, 2009 - Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that Dr. Robert Sutor, Vice President of Open Source and Linux for IBM Software Group, will keynote at the Red Hat Summit in Chicago, Sept. 1-4, 2009. Sutor will discuss the prevalence of Linux on devices from wristwatches, mobile phones and netbooks to desktops, RISC-based computers and mainframes, and how users can effectively match the work they need to do on Linux to the appropriate software, processors and machines.
RALEIGH, NC - Aug 18, 2009 - Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that Hilti Corporation has migrated its critical systems running SAP® applications, including SAP Business Suite, SAP ERP, SAP Customer Relationship Management (SAP CRM) and the SAP NetWeaver® technology platform, from Tru64 UNIX to Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Cluster Suite and Red Hat Global File System (GFS). The migration to Red Hat solutions has delivered increased performance and reduced electricity costs and has provided the company with a long-term platform strategy that aims to enable the Hilti IT team to be highly responsive to the increasing requirements of a global manufacturing sales and service organization.
RALEIGH, NC - Aug 17, 2009 - Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced the launch of its enhanced Partner Program, redesigned to give Red Hat's business partners additional economic, sales, marketing and technical benefits through the introduction of a new partner level and solution specializations. The Red Hat Partner Program will now include a Premier Business Partner level in addition to Advanced and Ready classifications. The program will also feature Infrastructure, Middleware & Virtualization specializations.
RALEIGH, NC - Aug 17, 2009 - Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced the five regional winners of its annual Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) of the Year contest. Winners demonstrated hard work, expertise and innovation utilizing RHCE skills to solve complex technical problems and deliver value to their companies and institutions.
RALEIGH, NC - Aug 12, 2009 - Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that GEICO Group Vice President and Chief Information Officer, Jess Reed will keynote at the 2009 JBoss World conference in Chicago, September 1-4, 2009. Reed will highlight GEICO's deployment of Red Hat's JBoss Enterprise Middleware and their use of open source middleware software for mission critical platforms. GEICOs participation in JBoss World demonstrates the continuing adoption of JBoss by leading global companies.
RALEIGH, NC - Aug 12, 2009 - Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that Trader Media Group and its website Autotrader.co.uk, the UK's no 1 motoring website, has standardised its platform on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and JBoss Enterprise Application Platform. The combined Red Hat solution has given Trader Media Group a more resilient, high-performing and stable platform allowing Auto Trader's internal operations team to scale as the company continues to grow.
RALEIGH, NC - Aug 10, 2009 - Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that global transportation provider Odyssey Logistics & Technology Corporation (OL&T) has achieved cost savings, performance enhancements and expanded scalability with its migration to Red Hat Enterprise Linux on 33 multi-core Intel® Xeon® processor-based IBM xSeries servers.
RALEIGH, NC - Aug 5, 2009 - Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced the award-winning finalists in its third annual Red Hat and JBoss Innovation Awards. The awards are designed to recognize the outstanding use, innovation and extension of Red Hat and JBoss solutions by Red Hat customers, partners and the open source community. From the finalists, one Red Hat Innovator of the Year and one JBoss Innovator of the Year will each be selected and announced during the Red Hat Summit and JBoss World, co-located this year in Chicago, Sept. 1-4, 2009.
RALEIGH, NC - Aug 5, 2009 - The Fedora Project, a Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT) sponsored and community-supported open source collaboration, today announced that John McLean is the recipient of the 2009 Fedora Scholarship, a program now in its second year. The Fedora Scholarship program recognizes college and university-bound students across the globe for their contributions to free software and the Fedora Project. McLean was selected from an impressive applicant pool and plans to attend Duke University this fall and double major in computer science and religion.
RALEIGH, NC - July 6, 2009 - Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, 4.3 has achieved Common Criteria certification at Evaluation Assurance Level (EAL) 2+ (augmented for flaw remediation). This marks the first Common Criteria certification for JBoss Enterprise Middleware, giving government agencies and other security-conscious organizations a new choice for enterprise Java applications. JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 4.3 is Red Hat's premiere Java application platform solution which also forms the foundation for JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform, JBoss EnterpriseService Oriented Architecture (SOA) Platform, and is included with JBoss Enterprise Business Rules Management System (BRMS). Customers can now deploy JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 4.3 with the added confidence that they meet the security standards set forth through Common Criteria.
RALEIGH, N.C. - Jun 30, 2009 - Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced the Premier Cloud Provider Certification and Partner Program, designed to simplify and expand the adoption of cloud computing by enterprise customers. The program enables industry leaders in cloud computing to become certified to offer Red Hat technology solutions. Premier Cloud Provider Partners will collaborate with Red Hat on technical support, security updates, hardware certification, sales and marketing, and business models. As part of the announcement today, cloud computing pioneer Amazon Web Services will extend its technology relationship with Red Hat to become the first Red Hat Premier Cloud Provider Partner.
RALEIGH, N.C., Jun 24, 2009 (BUSINESS WIRE) - Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced financial results for its fiscal year 2010 first quarter ended May 31, 2009.
RALEIGH, NC - June 23, 2009 - Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that YPF SA, a leading oil and gas company in Argentina, has migrated from proprietary UNIX operating systems to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 with integrated virtualization technology on Intel® Xeon® processor-based servers for its YPF Gas business unit. With the Red Hat on Intel processor combination, YPF Gas' IT infrastructure has experienced reduced costs, boosted performance, increased scalability and agility and expanded flexibility.
LAS VEGAS, NV - June 17, 2009 - Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced an optimized solution developed with HP around Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) Governance. The JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform has been optimized to be governed by HP SOA Systinet software. With the addition of HP SOA Systinet, customers have an opportunity to drive revenue, remove costly errors and respond to market changes when they automate business processes through a deployment on JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform.
RALEIGH, NC - June 16, 2009 - Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization portfolio of products has transitioned to Beta and is on track for final delivery later this year. These products are part of the company's outlined strategy to offer solutions that expand the scope and market reach of its virtualization and cloud technologies. By sharing Red Hat's broad hardware and ISV ecosystem, the products will offer customers flexibility, operational choice and efficiency, while expanding the market adoption of virtualization.
RALEIGH, NC - June 9, 2009 - The Fedora Project, a Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT) sponsored and community-supported open source collaboration project, today announced the availability of Fedora 11, the latest version of its free open source operating system. The community's eleventh release includes the broadest feature set to date, spotlights developments in software management and sound, improves key virtualization components and introduces Fedora Community, a portal project beta.
RALEIGH, NC - June 8, 2009 - Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that the world's largest independent tire and wheel retailer Discount Tire Company has achieved success with a combination of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat Satellite for its rapidly growing e-commerce business.
RALEIGH, NC - June 3, 2009 - Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that its leading operating platform, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, is driving further enterprise adoption of cloud computing. Building on the strong, long-term technology collaboration between Red Hat and Verizon Business, today Red Hat Enterprise Linux is offered as one of the first two operating system platforms available for Verizon Business' new Computing as a Service (CaaS) solution.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA - June 1, 2009 - Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced the JBoss Open Choice application platform strategy which aims to provide a single environment for deploying a variety of programming models with a common platform, making it easier to develop and deploy applications.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA - June 1, 2009 - Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today expanded its application server offerings to include workload specific solutions designed to provide increased flexibility and choice for enterprise customers.
RALEIGH, NC - May 27, 2009 - Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that Steve Rubinow, co-global chief information officer at NYSE Euronext, will keynote at the 2009 Red Hat Summit.
RALEIGH, NC - May 20, 2009 - Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that a combination of Red Hat and JBoss solutions are providing a high-performance, flexible and efficient platform for Banka Koper's innovative online banking solution, Banka IN. Red Hat Enterprise Linux and JBoss Enterprise Application Platform on HP BladeSystem were selected to avoid vendor lock-in, reduce costs and provide the scalability to adapt to continued business growth.
RALEIGH, NC - May 19, 2009 - Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced the availability of JBoss Enterprise Business Rules Management System (BRMS), an open source business rules solution that enables easy business policy and rules development, access, and management. JBoss Enterprise BRMS allows customers to reduce development time to update applications and processes with the latest business rules and policies. Automating business decisions with JBoss Enterprise BRMS can help a business to run faster and enable business process stakeholders the ability to rapidly implement change. Now, organizations can automate the delivery of customer-facing updates, promotions, loyalty programs, discounts, or payment terms among others, designed to cut time to deployment with greater accuracy, and at a lower cost.
RALEIGH, NC - May 18, 2009 - Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that a combination of Red Hat and JBoss solutions are providing a high-performance, flexible and efficient platform for Banka Koper's innovative online banking solution, Banka IN. Red Hat Enterprise Linux and JBoss Enterprise Application Platform on HP Blade Center systems were selected to avoid vendor lock-in, reduce costs and provide the scalability to adapt to continued business growth.
RALEIGH, NC - May 4, 2009 - Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that President and CEO, Jim Whitehurst, will deliver the keynote address at the Software & Information Industry Association's (SIIA) Software Summit & CODiE Awards. The conference focuses on key drivers of software excellence, including the transformation from on-premise to on-demand, issues of agile software development and leveraging new platforms.
RALEIGH, NC - April 28, 2009 - Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that the Brazilian National Institute of Educational Research and Studies (Inep), has migrated its applications to a full suite of JBoss Enterprise Middleware technology, including the JBoss Enterprise Application and Portal Platforms. Since beginning its migration to JBoss solutions, Inep has increased scalability, performance and stability for its mission-critical applications.
RALEIGH, NC - April 23, 2009 - Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced a call for presentations for its Open Source Cloud Computing Forum, a virtual event scheduled to take place July 22, 2009. The Forum will focus on how open source software and standards will advance the development and value of cloud computing environments.
Armonk, NY, and Raleigh, NC - April 22, 2009 - IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), a leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that Handelsbanken, one of the four largest banks in the Nordic Area, has achieved strong business continuity, security and cost-efficiency results by deploying virtualization technology using Red Hat Enterprise Linux on System z servers and IBM System z operating system, z/OS. The bank's newly deployed technology solution will help maintain a highly resilient and secure network that scales based on business demands.
RALEIGH, NC - April 21, 2009 - Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced the release of the Open Source Index, a study in conjunction with the Georgia Institute of Technology comparing and contrasting open source activity and environment across 75 countries. The global growth of open source continues to increase across the private sector, government and individuals. As an industry leader, Red Hat presents this study to the community as a framework and tool for furthering the interest and understanding of open source adoption.
RALEIGH, NC - April 14, 2009 - Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, together with SYNNEX Corporation (NYSE: SNX), a leading business process services company, today announced the launch of the Open Source Channel Alliance. Based on a consortium of open source Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) led by Red Hat, the Open Source Channel Alliance is aimed at delivering the value of open source technologies to a large base of Value Added Resellers (VARs) and System Integrators through an expanded partnership with SYNNEX.
RALEIGH, NC - April 9, 2009 - Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, announced today the official launch of the Teiid data virtualization system project in the JBoss.org Community. Teiid marks the first open source community project that aims to deliver Enterprise Information Integration (EII) with both relational and XML data virtualization. The Teiid project joins a number of other Red Hat-sponsored open source virtualization projects, including the oVirt.org project, and demonstrates Red Hat's commitment to providing a comprehensive range of virtualization capabilities.
RALEIGH, NC - April 6, 2009 - Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that registration is now open for the 2009 Red Hat Summit and JBoss World. Both events are co-located at the Chicago Hilton, and will take place Sept. 1-4, 2009. Register by July 6 to take advantage of early registration specials.
RALEIGH, NC - April 1, 2009 - Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that rednano.sg, Singapore's first local search and directory engine, has developed a stable, secure and reliable platform for its online search engine business using a combination of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Platform, including built-in virtualization, Red Hat Cluster Suite and Red Hat Global File System (GFS), as well as Red Hat Network (RHN) Satellite.
RALEIGH, NC - March 25, 2009 - Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced financial results for its fiscal fourth quarter and fiscal year ended February 28, 2009.
RALEIGH, NC - March 24, 2009 - Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that Covad Communications, a leading provider of integrated voice and data communications, has saved more than $500,000 annually by migrating to JBoss Enterprise Middleware to power its mission-critical infrastructure. Covad Communications has integrated the JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, SOA Platform and JBoss Operations Network in its transition from inflexible and costly proprietary middleware software and hardware to cut costs while speeding new broadband/VoIP products to market.
EclipseCon - March 23, 2009 - Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that JBoss Developer Studio 2.0 - Portfolio Edition is now available; the complete development environment not only enhances the Eclipse-based toolset, but also adds JBoss Enterprise Application, Portal, SOA and Data Services Platforms. The solution provides a robust, integrated development environment for rich web applications, mission critical enterprise applications, integration services in a single package, and at a price point that is expected to deliver compelling value to Red Hat customers.
RALEIGH, N.C. - March 23, 2009 - Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that President and CEO, Jim Whitehurst, will deliver the keynote address at Open Source Business Conference (OSBC) 2009. In its sixth year, OSBC brings together open source vendors, customers, partners and community members to focus on a variety of topics facing the open source industry.
RALEIGH, N.C. - March 18, 2009 - Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today marked a decade since the introduction of its Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) certification. Launched in 1999, the RHCE certification is one of the largest performance-based Linux certification programs. Its success and longevity stem from a solid track record of benchmarking the skills of Linux professionals through a performance-based assessment of the competencies necessary to administer Red Hat Enterprise Linux systems. With nearly 38,000 RHCEs worldwide, professionals holding this certification have continually helped their companies with successful deployments and migrations.
RALEIGH, N.C., and SAN JOSE, Calif. - March 16, 2009 - Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, and Cisco today announced that they will work together to deliver Red Hat Enterprise Linux software with the Cisco Unified Computing System, a ground-breaking solution that helps customers deploy mission-critical applications in a virtualized, high-performance data center environment. In addition, Red Hat and Cisco will collaborate to deliver joint global sales and services as well as customer engagement, and to develop deployment and enablement tools for customers.
RALEIGH, NC - March 10, 2009 - Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE:RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that U21Global, the world's premier online graduate school, migrated to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 with integrated virtualization to implement a reliable and affordable solution that could scale with growing business needs. It selected Red Hat Enterprise Linux to leverage its built-in virtualization technology in order to reduce its hardware footprint and increase operational flexibility.
RALEIGH, NC - March 9, 2009 - Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE:RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced the launch of its third annual Red Hat Innovation awards to be presented at the 2009 Red Hat Summit and JBoss World, co-located this year in Chicago Sept. 1-4, 2009. The Innovation Awards were created to honor individuals and companies who have forged new ground to demonstrate innovative solutions through the use of Red Hat and JBoss products and technologies.
RALEIGH, NC - March 4, 2009 - Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that Ecuador's Internal Revenue Service, SRI Ecuador, has developed a stable, secure and affordable platform for its Internet-based tax return project using a combination of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and JBoss Enterprise Application Platform.
BERLIN - February 25, 2009 - The Fedora Project, a Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT) sponsored and community-supported open source collaboration project, announced today that the Fedora Project will host the Fedora Users and Developers Conference (FUDCon) between June 26-28, 2009 in Berlin, Germany. FUDCon is a periodically held, community event where the Fedora community meets to discuss and collaborate on cutting edge technology features that eventually become part of the next release of the Fedora platform.
RALEIGH, NC - February 23, 2009 - Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced its virtualization strategy for 2009 and beyond, outlining plans to significantly expand and enhance its server, client and management products to enable ubiquitous adoption of virtualization across the enterprise. Red Hat is in a unique position to deliver comprehensive virtualization for customers. Leveraging a strong ecosystem of hardware and software partners, the Company will focus on breaking down barriers to reliable, large-scale virtualization deployment. Virtualization provides a foundational component of Red Hat's broader strategy to deliver flexible cloud computing environments with the ability to deploy any application, anywhere, at anytime.
RALEIGH, NC - February 23, 2009 - Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced its virtualization agenda and roadmap for 2009, including confirmation that its broad ecosystem of applications tested and certified to run on Red Hat Enterprise Linux are certified to run in a Red Hat virtualized platform with no modifications. Red Hat offers a broad ecosystem of certified applications, enabling expanded flexibility and choice for customers.
RALEIGH, NC - February 16, 2009 - Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that, in response to strong customer demand, it has signed reciprocal agreements with Microsoft Corporation to enable increased interoperability for the companies' virtualization platforms. Each company will join the other's virtualization validation/certification program and will provide coordinated technical support for their mutual server virtualization customers. The reciprocal validations will allow customers to deploy heterogeneous, virtualized Red Hat and Microsoft solutions with confidence.
RALEIGH, NC - February 11, 2009 - Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, together with it's JBoss Solution Partners, today announced the formation of a new open source community project focused on enterprise-class middleware migrations. The JBoss MASS (migration assistance) community will focus on the creation of migration tools and a migration resource center to accelerate the adoption of JBoss Enterprise Middleware.
RALEIGH, NC - February 11, 2009 - Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced the global availability of JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform 4.3, an integrated and standards-based open source platform for hosting and portal based applications and rich web presences. JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform 4.3 maintains its focus on enterprise needs with improved server performance, high availability and clustering and simple, straightforward installation and configuration.
RALEIGH, NC - February 9, 2009 - Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, and the Fedora Project, a Red Hat sponsored and community-supported open source collaboration project, today announced they will present three separate presentations at the seventh annual Southern California Linux Expo (SCaLE). SCaLE is one of the largest Linux conferences in the region, attracting enterprise and industry professionals along with smaller businesses, non-profit industries and Linux enthusiasts.
RALEIGH, NC - February 3, 2009 - Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that Bank of New Zealand, a subsidiary of the National Australia Bank Group, has deployed Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 on IBM System z mainframes to solve environment, space and cost issues related to its datacenter. With Red Hat and IBM solutions, Bank of New Zealand has significantly reduced its hardware footprint, power consumption, heat and carbon emissions and costs, including an expected 20 percent cost reduction over the life of the platform.
RALEIGH, NC - February 2, 2009 - Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that the call for papers is now open for the fifth-annual Red Hat Summit and the fourth-annual JBoss World. Both events are co-located at the Chicago Hilton, and will take place Sept. 1-4, 2009.
RALEIGH, NC - January 27, 2009 - Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that Acxiom® Corporation (NASDAQ: ACXM), a global leader in interactive marketing services, has selected Red Hat Enterprise Linux as the standard operating system for its high-performance, cost-saving grid processing environment.
RALEIGH, NC - January 26, 2009 - Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that CQUniversity, an Australian university with ten campuses and more than 21,00 students and staff, has migrated its critical IT systems to Red Hat solutions. CQUniversity implemented Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat Network (RHN) Satellite and has since realized significant cost savings, increased performance, ease of management and reliable, ongoing support.
RALEIGH, NC - January 20, 2009 - Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced the global availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3, featuring the latest open source, commercial-strength technology innovations. In the third update to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, customers will receive a wide range of enhancements, including significantly increased virtualization scalability, expanded hardware platform support and incorporation of OpenJDK Java technologies. Customers with a Red Hat Enterprise Linux subscription will receive the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3 update, which is available for immediate download from Red Hat Network.
RALEIGH, NC - January 19, 2009 - Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that ImmobilienScout24, one of the most successful real estate listing companies in Europe serving more than 800 million pages and over three million visitors each month, has achieved significantly reduced energy use and operating costs with Red Hat solutions. Utilizing Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Platform with built-in virtualization capabilities and Red Hat Network (RHN) Satellite, ImmobilienScout24 has cut energy usage by 25 percent, hardware cost per server by 60 percent and operating costs by 10 percent - all while maintaining 100 percent uptime.
RALEIGH, NC - January 15, 2009 - Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that it has completed the repurchase of $285.0 million aggregate principal amount of its 0.50% Convertible Senior Debentures due 2024 (the "Debentures"). Pursuant to the terms of the Indenture, dated as of January 12, 2004, between Red Hat and U.S. Bank Trust N.A. as trustee (the "Indenture"), Red Hat paid from its existing cash balances a purchase price in cash equal to 100% of the principal amount of the Debentures plus accrued and unpaid interest to January 15, 2009. Following this repurchase, which was made at the demand of the holders pursuant to the terms of the Indenture, Debentures with an aggregate face amount of only $0.5 million remain outstanding. This transaction reduces the fully diluted share count by approximately 11 million shares.
RALEIGH, NC - January 12, 2009 - Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today named Greg Symon as vice president and general manager of North American sales. With more than 25 years of business and sales experience, Symon will play a key leadership role in the development and execution of Red Hat's North American sales strategy and growth.
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