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May 8, 2025
RED HAT INTRODUCES RED HAT TECHWORLD
First Conference to be held in Brussels, Belgium in September 2001 and Will Bring Together Developers From the Open Source Community
May 8, 2001-- Red Hat, Inc. (Nasdaq: RHAT), the market leader among those developing, deploying and managing solutions incorporating open source technologies, today announced Red Hat TechWorld, a technical conference aimed at bringing Red Hat customers and open source developers and advocates together for a variety of educational and technical tracks. The first of these global events will be held at the Brussels Expo, in Brussels, Belgium on September 17 and 18, 2001.

Red Hat TechWorld Brussels will feature educational tracks on a variety of open source topics including application development, high availability, clustering, real time operating systems, journaling filesystems and enterprise Linux deployments.

"This forum is a welcome return to the technical roots of the open source movement," said Michael Tiemann, Red Hat Chief Technical Officer. "With the rapid adoption of open source technologies in applications ranging from embedded to the enterprise, both users and developers have much to share and discuss with each other. We look forward to adding our experience to the open education and information dialogue that continues to foster the growth of open source."

Red Hat TechWorld offers attendees the chance to experience the industry's cutting edge technologies by attending technical and educational talks, by visiting exhibitor booths and by participating in various Birds of a Feather sessions.

Registration for this event starts May 4, 2001.

To learn more about Red Hat TechWorld, as well as registration and sponsorship information, visit http://www.redhat-techworld.com.

Red Hat, Inc.

Red Hat is the leader in developing, deploying and managing solutions built on the benefits of an open source platform. These solutions include an open source product platform for devices to mainframes, a complete end-to-end set of Professional Services, and the Red Hat Network as the Internet-based backbone for deployment and management of the products and services. Red Hat's open source platform includes the award-winning Red Hat Linux operating system platform, the Interchange e-Commerce platform, Stronghold Secure Web Server, Credit Card Verification software, High Availability Server, GNU-based developer toolkit for embedded development and embedded run-time Linux, eCOS and RedBoot solutions.

Red Hat backs up their open source offerings with end-to-end services that include: Red Hat Professional Consulting focused on multiplatform infrastructure and engineering services; Red Hat Engineering services for software development and porting of the operating system and for embedded platforms and devices; Red Hat Enterprise support services for installation services and Web and telephone support and Red Hat Learning services for Linux certification (RHCE) and courses for Apache, Embedded systems, Advanced Developer and e-Commerce. Red Hat Network provides Red Hat's unique managed services capability to deploy and manage open source products, services, support and management information on-line in real-time to more cost effectively and reliably maintain open source-based solutions.

Red Hat is headquartered in Research Triangle Park, N.C. and has offices worldwide. For investor inquiries, contact Gabriel Szulik at Red Hat, +1-919-547-0012.

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

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