Amentra Continues Momentum with BPM, Legacy Modernization and Open Source

RICHMOND, Va.--(Business Wire)--
Amentra, an industry leading business and technology consulting
firm, today announced that they have been listed as a sample vendor
for Legacy Application Modernization Services and Business Process
Management (BPM) in Gartner Inc.'s recently released "Hype Cycle for
Consulting and Systems Integration, 2008(1) report." Amentra was also
listed in the Hype Cycle for Open-Source Software, 2008.(ii)

According to the Gartner report on consulting and systems
integration, "Legacy modernization services are the (consulting and
system integrator (C&SI)) services that organizations use to help them
gain higher levels of efficiency and effectiveness. Legacy
modernization is influenced by external drivers, business dynamics,
and new technology and standards. When the market hypes legacy
modernization, there is usually a catalyst for bringing the message to
the fore, and legacy modernization becomes linked with the catalyst."

"We are very pleased to be listed by Gartner as a sample vendor
for Legacy Modernization, BPM and Open Source," said Mike Lambert, CMO
and executive vice president, Sales at Amentra. "As Gartner recommends
in the report, 'Look for consultants who will "teach you to fish" so
you can master BPM as a discipline,' I believe Amentra's unique
mentoring and project-based approach is an excellent fit for this
recommendation. This allows us to continue driving significant
partnerships with our client base. Amentra continually strives to find
more strategic ways to develop revolutionary approaches to allow our
client-partners to transform their process, technology and people in
order to achieve the most significant bottom-line impact for their
businesses. I believe this listing by Gartner provides further
affirmation that we are exceeding these goals."

For more information about Amentra, visit www.amentra.com.

About Amentra, Inc.

Amentra, Inc., a Red Hat company, offers a distinctively different
approach to business and IT consulting. By helping clients deploy
mission critical business systems utilizing a formal, experience
proven mentoring and software development program, Amentra has earned
industry accolades for combining two areas that have historically been
separate service offerings into a single solution: deliverable-based
project solutions integrated with IT mentoring. Amentra has been
recognized as a leader in SOA, BPM, distributed component
architecture, and Open Source Solutions by industry leaders throughout
its history. Amentra provides expertise in the retail, insurance,
healthcare, pharmaceutical, telecommunications, finance, and
government sectors, among others. Headquartered in Richmond, Virginia,
Amentra also has regional offices in Washington, DC, Charlotte, NC,
Tampa, FL and Philadelphia, PA. Amentra's web address is
www.amentra.com.

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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(1) Gartner, Inc. "Hype Cycle for Consulting and Systems
Integration, 2008" July 9, 2008B by Michelle Cantara, Lorrie Scardino
and Frances Karamouzis et al Ii Gartner, Inc. "Hype Cycle for Open
Source Software, 2008" by Bob Igou et al, July 7, 2008

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