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December 18, 2000-Red Hat (Nasdaq:RHAT), the leader in developing, deploying and managing open source Internet infrastructure, today announced that it received several prestigious awards from leading industry publications and recognition at industry tradeshows in the year 2000. From Red Hat
embedded technologies to the Red Hat Linux OS to Red Hat Stronghold Secure Web Server, these awards highlight the growth of the Red Hat product line to provide customers a complete open source end-to-end solution.
Most recently, RedBoot, one of Red Hat's embedded technologies, was Linux Journal's Editor's Choice" at COMDEX Autumn 2000 in Las Vegas, Nevada. In addition, Source-Navigator was named "Best of Show" in the business application development tools category at the COMDEX Linux Business Expo.
The Red Hat Linux operating system also garnered widespread industry praise in the year 2000, winning Network Magazine's "Product of the Year" award and Computer Reseller News Test Centers "Editor's' Choice" Award for the Professional edition. In this comparative review, Red Hat received straight As
in separate categories, with an overall rating of A+.
Additionally, Linux Magazine named Red Hat Linux 6.2 an "Editor's Choice" for server distribution, and Red Hat received "Best Distribution" for the third consecutive year at the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo in San Jose, California.
Finally, Red Hat Stronghold Secure Web Server received a four-star (out of four) rating from InternetWeek, and Linux Magazine chose Red Hat Stronghold Secure Web Server 3 as their 2000 Editor's Choice for Web servers.
"Our customers want a single source for complete solutions to build up their Internet infrastructure, and Red Hat continues to broaden its product offerings to deliver comprehensive solutions around a common platform, Red Hat Linux,"said Matthew Szulik, president and CEO of Red Hat.
"With powerful and secure Web servers, embedded technologies and the complete chain of development tools to connect devices to the Internet, Red Hat is the single point of contact for open source solutions to develop, deploy and manage Internet infrastructure."
Red Hat has also received corporate recognition during the past year, including its recent naming to the Standard 100, powered by Epoch Partners, the premiere stock index tracking the Internet Economy. Red Herring also named Red Hat one of the "Top 50 Public Companies" in the Red Herring 100, an
annual profile of leading public and private companies.
To learn more about the complete end-to-end open source solutions from Red Hat, please see https://redhat-techworld.com
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.
Finally, 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.
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 (Nasdaq:RHAT) offers users one single, trusted point of contact and a common plaform 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 principal 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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respective owners.
FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS
Forward-looking statements in this press release are made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of
1934. Investors are cautioned that statements in this press release that are not strictly historical statements, including, without limitation, management's
plans and objectives for future operations, and management's assessment of market factors, constitute forward-looking statements which involve risks
and uncertainties. These risks and uncertainties include, without limitation, product plans and performance, the ability of Red Hat to attract users to
redhat.com, the 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 Hats filings with the Securities
and Exchange Commission, copies of which may be accessed through the SEC's Web site at http://www.sec.gov
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