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December 11, 2000---Red Hat (Nasdaq:RHAT), the leader in developing, deploying and managing open source Internet infrastructure solutions, today announced that Cradle Technologies is leveraging a broad set of Red Hat's embedded technologies and services as part of its strategy to supply a revolutionary silicon platform for stream processing applications .
The Cradle contract is a significant embedded win for Red Hat because it includes consulting services and porting of Red Hat's GNUPro embedded development tools, eCos and embedded Linux operating systems, to Cradle's Universal Microsystem platform (UMS). Cradle's UMS platform will make it possible for a new generation of complex embedded systems to be developed by OEMs simply by redesigning software-rather than by constantly rebuilding the entire chip hardware.
``This win continues the tremendous momentum for Red Hat in the embedded arena as device manufacturers and innovators like Cradle, Ericsson, Hitachi, iObjects, Motorola, NetSilicon and Samsung who turn to Red Hat to help create a new generation of computing," said Matthew Szulik, president and CEO of Red Hat. "Cradle's revolutionary processor architecture represents a breakthrough for critical hardware applications, that is key to the Internet's expansion."
``The availability of world class tools and operating systems are a critical part of our silicon platform strategy,'' said Satish Gupta, president and CEO of Cradle Technologies. ``The combination of Red Hat's unique technical capabilities, as well as its complete solution of tools, run-time and library technologies and brand leadership, with our UMS allows OEMs to leverage a rich set of re-usable components based on a foundation of Open Source. This is the blueprint for how stream processing systems will be built in the future.''
Cradle's UMS was designed to join the classic microprocessor, microcontroller, and digital signal processor chip families as the first single-chip computing platform specifically designed to meet the stream processing requirements of an ever increasing range of consumer, business, and industrial products. The UMS' architecture allows highly complicated applications to be created predominantly in software - rather than with custom chips or expensive combinations of conventional processors, thereby revolutionising the way OEM's can develop products and bring them to market.
International Data Corp. (IDC) predicts that by 2002, there will be more than 55 million handheld and notebook-style information appliance devices and that by 2005, shipments of these appliances will exceed shipments of PCs. Working with key semiconductor providers, original equipment manufacturers (OEM's) and operators, Red Hat is focused on bringing to market embedded platforms that are deployed and managed with customisable and scalable Internet-based services that improve the reliability, security and performance of Internet-connected appliances.
Red Hat has more than 10 years of unmatched experience in testing, releasing, and maintaining leading edge open source products and platforms based on a single source base for Linux and GNU. For more information on Red Hat Embedded Linux please visit http://www.redhat.com/embedded
Open Source Momentum
International Data Corp. (IDC) research states that paid Linux shipments
grew faster than any other server operating system over the past two
years, and their preliminary figures for 1999 show Linux shipments hold
24.6 percent of the server operating system market, up from 15.8 in
1998. IDC also states that Red Hat holds 50.2 percent of Linux vendor
market share and that Red Hat Linux is by far the most popular
distribution, preferred by 68.7 percent of U.S. Linux users.
Research firm Netcraft, Inc. http://www.netcraft.com, states that as of May 2000, 30 percent of all public Web sites run on Linux-based operating
systems, making Linux the most popular choice for deploying public Web
sites. IDC research shows 40 percent of all spending on Linux servers is
for Internet related applications, firmly entrenching Linux servers in
the Internet infrastructure.
Red Hat's numerous alliances with industry leaders and the demand for
Linux-based applications has created open source support from many of
the industry's leading software and hardware manufacturers, including
Dell, Compaq, Computer Associates, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Intel,
Netscape, Novell, Oracle and SAP.
About Red Hat
Red Hat offers users one single, trusted point of contact and a common platform for developing, deploying and managing open source across Internet infrastructure and devices that connect to the Internet, ranging from small embedded devices to high availability clusters and integrated web server/ecommerce OSes. The Red Hat Network, Red Hat's unique management technology, helps companies worldwide easily manage it all by delivering open source products, service, support and information on-line in real-time.
In addition to the award-winning Red Hat Linux server operating system, Red Hat offers Stronghold Secure Web Server and Credit Card Verification Software for secure e-commerce and is the principle provider of GNU-based developer tools and support solutions for a wide variety of embedded processors. Red Hat also provides run-time solutions such as Linux, eCos, uClinux, the award-winning RedBoot, custom engineering services, support, and training from to organisations in all embedded and Linux markets.
Red Hat Europe was established in July 1999 with its European
headquarters based in Surrey, United Kingdom and offices throughout
Europe. Red Hat Linux is sold and supported through a number of major
distribution and industry partners throughout Europe and from
https://redhat-techworld.com/shop
Red Hat Linux was named InfoWorld's Product of the Year for four years
in a row, was given a productivity accolade in Software
Development's Jolt Awards, was named an environment/desktop finalist in
the Ziff-Davis European Excellence Awards, won the editor's
choice awards from the Linux Journal and Australian Personal Computing
magazines, and won the `Just Plain Cool' award from Australian
Personal Computing magazine. At March's LinuxWorld Expo, more than 8,000
members of the Linux community voted Red Hat a
`LinuxWorld Favourite'. Red Hat Linux recently won a Product Excellence
award from Software Development Magazine.
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FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS
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lack of demonstrated widespread acceptance of e-learning as an effect
training tool, reliance upon strategic relationships, management of
growth, the possibility of undetected software errors, the risks of
economic downturns generally, and in Red Hat's industry specifically,
the risks associated with competition and competitive pricing pressures,
the viability of the Internet, and other risks detailed in Red Hat's
filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, copies of which may
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