Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Wins SearchEnterpriseLinux.com 'Product of the Year' Gold...

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Wins SearchEnterpriseLinux.com 'Product of the Year' Gold in Linux Server Distributions Category for Leadership in Virtualization

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Earns Gold Honors for Its Embrace of
Open Source Virtualization and Production-Level Features
RALEIGH, N.C.--(Business Wire)--Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source
solutions, today announced that Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 has been
selected as Gold medalist winner in the SearchEnterpriseLinux.com 2007
'Products of the Year' awards, in the Linux Server Distributions
category. This annual award is presented by the editors of
TechTarget's Data Center Media Group.

The 'Products of the Year' awards were judged by the
SearchEnterpriseLinux.com editorial staff, in conjunction with a team
of users, industry experts, analysts and consultants. Judging was
based on six criteria, including innovation, performance, ease of
integration into existing environments, ease of use and manageability,
functionality and value. Judges characterized Red Hat Enterprise Linux
as "a solid choice for mainstream computing," and "a full-featured
release that delivers on a range of roadmap commitments, especially
for CPU support, drivers, virtualization and package updates and
upgrades."

With solutions that span from the desktop to the data center, Red
Hat Enterprise Linux offers compelling levels of performance, security
and robustness, and is certified by leading enterprise hardware and
software vendors. Enterprise Linux couples the innovation of open
source and the stability of a true enterprise-class platform.

"Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 provides our customers with
industry-leading virtualization capabilities, an impressive deployment
ecosystem and world-record setting performance," said Scott Crenshaw,
vice president, Enterprise Linux Business at Red Hat. "To be honored
as one of SearchEnterpriseLinux's 'Products of the Year' is a
testament to the validity of Red Hat solutions."

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news, more often, visit www.press.redhat.com.

About SearchEnterpriseLinux.com

SearchEnterpriseLinux.com focuses on helping IT managers and
architects move to and make the most out of Linux server in enterprise
data centers. The site examines the key distributions and fundamental
applications needed in the environment, and also reports on timely
issues related to hardware and software support for Linux.
SearchEnterpriseLinux.com delivers expert advice, news and updates
about Linux administration and management; integration and
interoperability between Linux, Windows and Unix; securing Linux and
mixed-platform environments; Linux and virtualization; migrating to
Linux; high performance computing and more - arming enterprise users
and managers with the level of detail they need to make crucial
purchasing decisions.

SearchEnterpriseLinux.com is part of the TechTarget network
(www.techtarget.com). TechTarget publishes integrated media that
enable information-technology (IT) marketers to reach targeted
communities of IT professionals and executives in all phases of the
technology decision-making and purchase process. Through its
industry-leading Web sites, magazines and conferences, TechTarget
delivers measurable results that help IT marketers generate qualified
sales leads, shorten sales cycles and grow revenues.

About Red Hat, Inc.

Red Hat, the world's leading open source solutions provider, is
headquartered in Raleigh, NC with over 50 satellite offices spanning
the globe. CIOs have ranked Red Hat first for value in Enterprise
Software for four consecutive years in the CIO Insight Magazine Vendor
Value study. Red Hat provides high-quality, affordable technology with
its operating system platform, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, together with
applications, management and Services Oriented Architecture (SOA)
solutions, including the JBoss Enterprise Middleware Suite. Red Hat
also offers support, training and consulting services to its customers
worldwide. Learn more: http://www.redhat.com.

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