July 19, 2025 RED HAT UNVEILS RED HAT EUROPE Experienced Vice President and Offices in UK and Germany to Offer Full Range of Linux-based Operating System Software and Support in Europe, Middle East and Africa Red Hat, a leading developer and provider of Linux-based operating system solutions, today unveiled Red Hat Europe. Two new offices in the United Kingdom and Germany will deliver the company's award winning Red Hat Linux software and support to enterprise users in Europe and the surrounding regions. In addition, Red Hat has named Colin Tenwick, former vice president and general manager of Sybase Europe, as vice president, Red Hat Europe, Middle East and Africa. Tenwick was responsible for all European operations, which provided both sales and service for Sybase's enterprise software solutions. Prior to Sybase, Tenwick was managing director international for the ASK Group (now Computer Associates), where he set up operations in Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Spain, Italy, Eastern Europe and Latin America and also served in various sales and management roles for Ingres (also now Computer Associates) in both the UK and the Netherlands. "Colin brings tremendous experience developing and managing successful European sales and support operations for one of the 10 largest enterprise software companies," said Matthew Szulik, president of Red Hat, Inc. "With Colin's expertise and offices staffed by Linux sales and support professionals, Red Hat can provide top solutions to European companies moving business and Internet systems to Red Hat Linux." The new European organisation, which will function as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Red Hat, Inc., expands Red Hat's current distribution, service and engineering partnerships in Europe. Red Hat's UK office and European headquarters are based in Guildford, Surrey. Red Hat's German office, in Stuttgart, includes the expertise and assets recently purchased from Delix, a leading provider of Linux-based solutions and services in Germany. "Fast-growing enterprise businesses in Europe want localised Linux solutions and service providers and the freedom of open source environments," said Colin Tenwick, the new vice president of Red Hat Europe, Middle East and Africa. "I am very pleased to join a recognised, open source solution leader and to help deliver powerful Red Hat Linux solutions and support to companies in Europe." About Red Hat, Inc. Founded in 1994, Red Hat is a leader in the development of Linux-based operating system software (OS) and services. Based in based in Durham, N.C., Red Hat builds the most accessible and advanced server OS available anywhere with technical innovations such as RPM and the disk druid installation tool. Red Hat Linux is available for Intel, Compaq Alpha and Sun SPARC platforms. Red Hat Linux available directly from the company and through Red Hat's partner, distributor and reseller programs, which include top PC and server manufacturers like Dell, IBM and Hewlett-Packard. Red Hat Linux was named InfoWorld's Product of the Year for three 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 Favorite'. Red Hat Linux recently won a Product Excellence award from Software Development Magazine. LINUX is a trademark of Linus Torvalds. RED HAT is a registered trademark of Red Hat, Inc. UNIX is a registered trademark of The Open Group. All other names and trademarks are the property of their respective owners. For More Information: Clea Herrmann Firefly Communications Tel: 0171-381 4505 Email: cherrmann@firefly.co.uk Juliet Roberts Resources Manager Red Hat Europe Tel: 01483 295420 Email: Redhat.co@virgin.net For further information please contact Fiona Phelps Red Hat phone: +44 (0)1483 300 169 email: fphelps@redhat.com