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July 6, 2025 RED HAT GEARS UP ACROSS CENTRAL EUROPE New Head of Central European Operations Supports Embedded Drive in German-Speaking Markets Red Hat, the leader in open source Internet infrastructure solutions, has announced the appointment of a new head of central European operations, Dieter Hoffmann, who will hold responsibility for the company's general management, including sales, training and marketing across Germany, Switzerland, Austria and Eastern Europe. Having studied telecommunications engineering, Hoffmann went on to gain a strong background in telecommunications from previous roles at Deutsche Telekom, Siemens and Cadence Design Systems. He joins Red Hat from Cygnus, where his focus was on large embedded services projects. Commenting on his new role, Hoffmann says: "Over the last year Red Hat has made tremendous progress across Europe and now one of the key drivers for moving forward will be a focus on the embedded market space. There are great opportunities for Red Hat in this area, supported by the strong relationships the company has formed with leading international vendors and, on a local level, with key regional partners." Colin Tenwick, Vice President and General Manager, Red Hat Europe, comments: "Dieter brings a wealth of experience with him to this role, in particular to the embedded arena, but will also be integral in promoting Red Hat's training and support services across the German-speaking markets. We are very pleased to have him on board to ensure that Red Hat continues to be at the forefront of driving Linux as an alternative operating system to Unix, Novell Netware and Windows 2000 across Europe." About Red Hat, Founded in 1994, Red Hat is a leader in the development of Linux-based operating system software (OS) and services. 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 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 from www.europe.redhat.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 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 further information please contact Clea Herrmann Firefly phone: 0207 386 1488 email: clea.herrmann@firefly.co.uk Nick Rappolt Firefly phone: +44 (0)20 7386 1400 email: nrappolt@firefly.co.uk Fiona Phelps Red Hat phone: +44 (0)1483 300169 email: fphelps@redhat.com