From:	 Maribel Lopez <jlewis@schwartz-pr.com>
To:	 <lwn@lwn.net>
Subject: Red Hat Accelerates UNIX-to-LINUX Migration by Announcing the First Enterprise-Class Linux Operating System
Date:	 Tue, 26 Mar 2002 09:18:33 -0500

Red Hat Accelerates UNIX-to-LINUX Migration by Announcing the First
Enterprise-Class Linux Operating System

Red Hat Linux Advanced Server Receives Unprecedented Enterprise Application
Support; Oracle, VERITAS Software, and 20 other Top Independent Software
Vendors Commit Application Availability

RALEIGH, NC, AND NEW YORK CITY--March 26, 2002--Red Hat (R), Inc.
(Nasdaq:RHAT) today announced Red Hat Linux Advanced Server, the first
enterprise-class Linux operating system.  In addition, Red Hat will unveil
unprecedented enterprise application support for Red Hat Linux Advanced
Server at a partner and customer launch event today in New York City.
Joining Red Hat at the launch are technology leaders Intel (R) Corporation
(Nasdaq: INTC), Oracle (R) (Nasdaq:ORCL) and VERITAS (R) Software
(Nasdaq:VRTS), as well as selected other customers from New York City's
financial district.

Red Hat Linux Advanced Server products will enable large companies to
accelerate their migration from costly, proprietary UNIX to far more
cost-effective Linux running on Intel-based server systems.  A recent total
cost of ownership (TCO) analysis by IDC Research showed that Linux reduces
per-user costs by almost half in internet/intranet/extranet environments when
compared to RISC/UNIX solutions. In collaborative computing these savings can
exceed 75 percent. Red Hat Linux Advanced Server now brings this breakthrough
TCO to database and application workloads that are common in large
enterprises.

"The global enterprise IT market is looking for choice and hard-dollar
savings," said Paul Cormier, executive vice president of research and
development with Red Hat.  "The low-cost / high-value proposition of Red Hat
Linux Advanced Server on Intel architecture delivers to IT buyers high
performance without the lock-in and inflated costs of proprietary operating
systems. We've designed the new Red Hat Linux Advanced Server to provide
software vendors with all the tools and capabilities they need to rapidly
migrate their applications to an enterprise-class Linux environment. With
enterprise application leaders such as Oracle, VERITAS and many others
involved, Red Hat Linux Advanced Server is the obvious choice for enterprises
that want to break out of the stranglehold of proprietary operating systems
and high-cost hardware."

"The combination of Intel-based servers with Red Hat Linux Advanced Server
offers a compelling and robust platform option for enterprise computing,"
said Lisa Hambrick, director of enterprise processor marketing for Intel's
Enterprise Platform Group.  "Red Hat's effort exemplifies the broad choice,
cost-effectiveness and standards-based computing approach Intel-based
solutions offer to all sizes of companies."

Red Hat Linux Advanced Server is the industry's first platform to deliver the
full benefits of open source computing to the enterprise. Advanced Server and
other future Enterprise Platform solutions from Red Hat combine software and
value-added services to deliver the systems management, applications and
security that enterprises need to efficiently migrate and manage thousands of
servers.

Red Hat Linux Advanced Server Features and Support

Each copy of Red Hat Linux Advanced Server will include a one-year
subscription to the Red Hat Network, for managed services, secure
configuration, asset management and ongoing, centralized maintenance through
a single, intuitive Web interface. In addition, the new Red Hat Linux
Advanced Server offers:

·Reliability with Red Hat's commitment to software quality, global 24x7
support, long-term API consistency, and 12-18 month release cycles.

·Availability with top performance, clustering, high-availability fail-over
configurations and data integrity provisions through Red Hat Cluster Manager.	

·Scalability with asynchronous I/O, improved process scheduler and, support
for up to eight-way SMPs.

·Manageability with a Java-based Web console for cluster node management,
automated security and performance updates from the Red Hat Network and Red
Hat's full-scale life cycle services.

Additional technical details on Red Hat Linux Advanced Server and value-added
services are available on Red Hat's Web site at: www.redhat.com.

Pricing and Availability
Red Hat Linux Advanced Server and integrated services will be available in
April from Red Hat, Inc. Pricing starts at $800 per server and up, based on
the level of value-added services provided.

About Red Hat, Inc.
Red Hat is the world's premier open source and Linux provider. Red Hat is
headquartered in Raleigh, N.C. and has offices worldwide. Please visit Red
Hat on the Web at www.redhat.com. For investor inquiries, contact Gabriel
Szulik at Red Hat, (919) 754-3700.

To obtain a copy of the IDC Total Cost of Ownership study, go to:
www.redhat.com/whitepapers

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Red Hat, Inc.							
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