Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 12:51:20 -0400
From: Greg Smith <gsmith@schwartz-pr.com>
To: <lwn@lwn.net>
Subject: Red Hat Linux Powers Google's Award-Winning Search Engine



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Melissa London				Bryan Scanlon or Joshua Slobin
Red Hat, Inc. (East)			Schwartz Communications for Red Hat
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RED HAT LINUX POWERS GOOGLE'S AWARD-WINNING SEARCH ENGINE

Red Hat Linux is an Essential Component of Google's Innovative
Web Searching Technology

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C.--May 30, 2000--Red Hat(R), Inc.
(Nasdaq:RHAT), a leader in open source Internet infrastructure solutions, today
announced that its operating system powers Google's Internet search engine services.
Google, one of the fastest growing search engines on the Web, operates its search engine
and all of its computing functions on a cluster of more than 4,000 PCs running Red Hat.
Google plans to significantly increase its use of the Red Hat Linux operating system as it
increases its computing power to meet the growing demand of users worldwide.

Google has used Red Hat Linux for all its Internet computing functions since its inception
in 1998. To generate the necessary power for its in-depth searching capabilities, Google
needed a large cluster with the dependability and scalability of UNIX, but without the
prohibitive cost. With the support of Red Hat, Google has seen significant success. To
match the site's growth, Google has scaled its current Linux cluster to more than 4,000
computers, and plans to increase this number as the site's popularity continues to grow.

"Red Hat's easy installation, reliable operating environment, and scalable server support
cut down the time and person power needed to oversee the thousands of Internet servers
in the Google Linux cluster, thereby helping Google to maintain its focus on developing
new technologies that improve a user's search experience," said Urs Hoelzle, Google's
vice president of engineering.

Unlike other Internet search engines, Google combines an easy-to-use interface with
complex algorithms to determine the importance and relevancy of Web pages, a task
that requires a high-performance back-end system.

Google will continue to deploy the Red Hat Linux operating system as more computing
power is needed to answer search queries and handle growing worldwide traffic.  Red
Hat provides the high-performance Linux software necessary for processing and
retrieving search queries across all Google data centers.

"By successfully utilizing one of the world's largest Linux clusters, Google has proven
Red Hat's scalability and reliability for mission-critical Web solutions," said Billy
Marshall, VP of Product Marketing, Red Hat, Inc.  "As Google grows, Red Hat will
continue to provide the power and support that its innovative searching technology
requires."

"IDC's studies show that Linux is often used to support Web infrastructure," said Dan
Kusnetzky, vice president, IDC. "By using Red Hat Linux to power its Web searching
service, Google is taking advantage of the flexibility and power of Linux. The growth of
paid shipments of Linux as a server operating environment has been impressive. It's
grown faster than any other server operating environment between 1997 and 1999."

About Red Hat Customers

Thousands of organizations around the globe successfully utilize Red Hat's open source
products and services, including ISPs, e-Commerce vendors, software developers,
government institutions and Fortune 500 companies. To see how Red Hat solutions can
help in your industry, or to contribute your own Red Hat success story, visit
http://success.redhat.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 Linux is by far the most popular
distribution, preferred by 68.7 percent of U.S. Linux users.

Research firm Netcraft, Inc. (www.netcraft.com), states that as of May 2000, 36 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 Compaq, Computer Associates, Dell,
Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Intel, Netscape, Novell, Oracle and SAP.

About Red Hat, Inc.

Founded in 1994, Red Hat (Nasdaq:RHAT), is the leading provider of open source
Internet infrastructure solutions, delivering on the promise of open source from small
embedded devices to the most prodigious enterprise. Red Hat applies its technological
leadership to create open source solutions for Internet infrastructure and post-PC
environments, offers services backed by the best understanding of open source and the
most comprehensive resources, delivers the brand of a widely trusted open source leader
and corporate partner, and persists in an indelible commitment to the virtues of open
source to lead a revolution in the computing industry.

Red Hat is based in Research Triangle Park, N.C. and has offices worldwide. Visit Red
Hat on the Web at www.redhat.com. For investor inquiries, contact Lippert/Heilshorn at
(212) 838-3777.

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