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Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 11:18:36 -0500
From: Peter Gorman <pgorman@schwartz-pr.com>
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Subject: Red Hat Unveils Expanded E-Commerce Offerings


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

For additional information:
Melissa London				   Bryan Scanlon/Peter Gorman
Red Hat, Inc.					Schwartz Communications for Red Hat
(919) 547-0012				       (781) 684-0770
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RED HAT UNVEILS EXPANDED E-COMMERCE OFFERINGS

Red Hat Integrates Akopia Interchange to Deliver Open Source E-Commerce Solutions

LINUXWORLD NEW YORK--January 31, 2001--Red Hat, Inc. (Nasdaq:RHAT),
the leader in developing, deploying and managing open source Internet infrastructure,
announced today at LinuxWorld in New York City new e-commerce additions to its
comprehensive line of open source Internet infrastructure solutions.

Red Hat will integrate Akopia’s popular Interchange e-commerce platform into Red
Hat’s solutions portfolio that now includes Interchange, the Stronghold Secure Web
Server and CCVS e-commerce payment system for a comprehensive e-commerce
solution stack. With the addition of Interchange, customers and organizations looking to
build an integrated e-commerce infrastructure with the flexibility and low cost
advantages of open source can look to Red Hat for comprehensive open source
technologies and global support.

The Red Hat e-commerce solution stack emphasizes the completeness of Red Hat’s open
source offerings for both the device and server markets. Red Hat’s comprehensive
solutions are tied together through Red Hat Network, a powerful Internet-based service
for delivering open source innovations, upgrades, security features and user support
quickly and cost-effectively.

"Customers recognize the flexibility and economic advantages of open source and are
looking to Red Hat for an integrated line of open source Internet infrastructure solutions
and a global support network," said Matthew Szulik, president and CEO of Red Hat.
"This latest initiative continues Red Hat’s mission to provide everything needed for an
open source infrastructure spanning powerful servers, the software running them and the
next-generation of devices tied together through the Internet. Customer demand for the
high value of open source solutions continues to drive our acquisition strategy and our
ability to offer an end-to-end product line that challenges less economical alternatives."

Red Hat Integrated E-commerce Solution Stack

Red Hat’s complete line of e-commerce solutions dramatically reduce the cost and time-
to-market and required to fuel a company’s e-business initiatives. It includes:

- Red Hat Linux 7, the latest release of the world’s most popular, award-winning Linux
operating system.

- Interchange, the most mature and robust open source, e-commerce platform available
today. Developed by Akopia, Inc., of Reston, VA, this enterprise-class e-business
software application is capable of supporting hundreds of concurrent users, thousands of
transactions and seamless integration with existing legacy systems. In addition, Red Hat
announced at LinuxWorld in New York today that it has acquired Akopia.

- Red Hat Stronghold Secure Web Server, the number one commercial, secure Web
server. It is based on the most current, open source Apache technology, this Web server
delivers the ideal price and performance standard for secure Web server operations,
through bulletproof design and enterprise scalability derived from ongoing open source
collaboration by the world’s leading developers.

- CCVS e-commerce payment processing software, a critical piece of infrastructure for
any company conducting business on the Internet, is currently used by more than 150
ISPs worldwide. CCVS automates credit card authorization processing.

- The Red Hat Network which dramatically reduces the cost of deploying and managing
an open source operating system and e-commerce platform with automated, online
updates that assure reliability, security and availability of systems 24x7. The Red Hat
Network ties all of Red Hat’s solutions together to deliver a consistent, reliable stream of
open source innovation to customers while removing the time consuming maintenance
normally associated with managing an Internet infrastructure.

- The Largest Single Point of Contact for a Variety of Support and Training Services that
deliver unmatched open source expertise?and help foster that expertise in today’s
corporate computing environment.

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, Interchange 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, Red Hat Embedded, the award-winning RedBoot,
custom engineering services, support and training to organizations in all embedded and
Linux markets.

Red Hat is headquartered in Research Triangle Park, 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, 919-547-0012.

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