Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2000 12:20:31 -0500
From: Ben Conrad <bconrad@schwartz-pr.com>
To: <lwn@lwn.net>
Subject: Rymic Chooses Red Hat for Diagnostic Device


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

For additional information:
Melissa London				Bryan Scanlon/Ben Conrad
Red Hat, Inc.				   Schwartz Communications for Red Hat
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RYMIC CHOOSES RED HAT FOR GROUNDBREAKING MILITARY
VEHICLE INTERNET AND ETHERNET DIAGNOSTIC DEVICE

Real-time Monitoring Capability, Stability and Open Source License Make Red
Hat uClinux The Ideal Operating System For First-of-Kind Ground Vehicle
Assessment and Diagnostic Device from Rymic Systems

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C.--December 13, 2000--Red Hat, Inc.
(Nasdaq:RHAT), the leader in developing, deploying and managing open source
Internet infrastructure solutions, today announced that Rymic Systems, Inc. has
chosen Red Hat’s uClinux port as the operating system for a prototypical vehicle
monitoring device soon to be tested by the United States Army. The embedded
device will be incorporated in the Bradley fighting vehicles, heavy expanded
mobility tactical trucks and humvees.

Under the terms of this agreement, Red Hat’s uClinux will be used as the
operating system for Rymic’s first series of rymicNET Internet devices, designed
for vehicle diagnostics and predictive failure analysis, initially to be tested in
United States Army ground vehicles. uClinux is designed to run in less than 512k
of memory while maintaining all of the stability, networking and file system
support advantages of the standard Linux distribution.

"We’ve tried more traditional PC operating systems in the past for similar
embedded appliances, but they were prone to instability, high power requirements
and heat dissipation problems," said Steve May, Rymic president. "Red Hat’s
uClinux provides us with an inherently stable solution that monitors vehicles’
performances in real time; because uClinux is open source software, costly per-
unit license fees are eliminated."

Rymic’s rymicNET device is a complete monitoring solution designed to provide
extensive performance data and predictive failure analysis--initially for United
States Army ground vehicles. This first-of-series device utilizes NetSilicon’s
Net+Arm low power Internet processor, designed for use in embedded networking
environments, and Red Hat’s embedded uClinux operating system. A complete
family of rymicNET diagnostic and Real-World to Internet interface products will
soon be available for construction equipment, railway cars, truck fleets and
complex industrial machinery. For more information on Rymic Systems, Inc.,
please visit www.rymic.com.

The Internet device will be tried initially at Fort Riley, Kansas, and according to
Pat Stevens, the deputy product manager of the U.S. Army Diagnostic
Involvement Program, "The Rymic Internet device could be installed on 3,000 to
50,000 Army trucks, service and fighting vehicles."

"Rymic, with its new line of rymicNET devices, is on the cutting edge of Internet
device technology," said Michael Tiemann, CTO, Red Hat, Inc. "Red Hat is
leading the charge toward widespread acceptance of embedded computing devices
with a complete solution portfolio spanning award-winning embedded software,
tools, embedded runtimes and a revolutionary support framework in the Red Hat
Network."

Red Hat, Inc.

Red Hat (Nasdaq:RHAT) offers users one single, trusted point of contact and a
common platform for developing, deploying and managing open source across
Internet infrastructure and devices that connect to the Internet, ranging from small
embedded devices to high availability clusters and integrated Web server/e-
commerce OSes. And the Red Hat Network, Red Hat’s unique management
technology, helps companies worldwide easily manage it all by delivering open
source products, service, support and information on-line in real-time.

In addition to the award-winning Red Hat Linux server operating system, Red Hat
offers Stronghold Secure Web Server and Credit Card Verification Software for
secure e-commerce and is the principal provider of GNU-based developer tools
and support solutions for a wide variety of embedded processors. Red Hat also
provides run-time solutions such as Linux, eCos, uClinux, the award-winning
RedBoot, custom engineering services, support, and training to organizations in all
embedded and Linux markets.

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worldwide. Please visit Red Hat on the Web at www.redhat.com. For investor
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