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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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