From:	 Maribel Lopez <jlewis@schwartz-pr.com>
To:	 <lwn@lwn.net>
Subject: Red Hat CEO To Testify Before Senate Judiciary Committee
Date:	 Tue, 11 Dec 2001 12:52:16 -0500


RED HAT CEO MATTHEW SZULIK TO TESTIFY BEFORE SENATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE
REGARDING MICROSOFT SETTLEMENT

WHO: Red Hat, Inc., CEO Matthew Szulik

WHAT: Testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee in the matter of the
anti-trust case settlement against Microsoft Corporation

WHERE: Dirksen Building, U.S. Senate Office Building, Room 106, Washington,
D.C.

WHEN: 10:00 a.m. EST Wednesday, December 12, 2001

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C.--December 11, 2001--Red Hat, Inc. (Nasdaq:RHAT)
today announced that at 10:00 a.m. EST on Wednesday, December 12, 2001, CEO
Matthew Szulik has been invited to testify on the proposed anti-trust
settlement between Microsoft Corporation (Nasdaq:MSFT), and the federal
government. As an invited witness, Szulik will testify before the United
States Senate Judiciary Committee as part of a panel comprised of noted
legal, government and industry experts.

"The Court of Appeals was clear that Microsoft broke the law and engaged in
anti-competitive business practices," said Szulik, CEO of Red Hat, Inc., in a
statement prior to the testimony. "I feel it is important to express Red
Hat's views to the Senate Judiciary Committee that any final agreement
between Microsoft and the United States government must ensure that Microsoft
will never again practice the same illegal tactics that brought about the
government's original case. The recent decree from the Department of Justice
is inadequate and we believe that the remedial proposals of the plaintiffs
still litigating this matter in nine states is a more appropriate and
reasonable conclusion of this legal process."

In a separate but related initiative regarding the class actions suits now
underway in several states, Red Hat offered a counter-proposal to Microsoft's
proposed settlement of the class action suits. Microsoft had proposed to
donate software and hardware to the nation's 14,000 poorest school districts.
Red Hat countered with a proposal to provide open-source software to every
school district in the United States free of charge if Microsoft redirects
the money it would have spent on software into purchasing more hardware for
the nation's 14,000 poorest school districts. Additional information about
Red Hat's proposal can be found at www.redhat.com/opensourcenow.

Senate Judiciary Committee Testimony Details

Panel testimony in the Microsoft matter will take place at 10:00 a.m. EST in
the Dirksen Building, room 106. Broadcast coverage is not finalized at the
time of this media alert, but C-SPAN or C-SPAN2 may cover the hearings live.
C-SPAN will finalize its coverage plans at 5:00 p.m. EST on Tuesday, December
11, 2001.

About Red Hat, Inc.
Red Hat is the leader in building and maintaining solutions built on the
benefits of an open source platform. The open source platform includes the
Red Hat Linux operating system for mainframes, servers, workstations and
embedded devices, GNUPro tools for developers, database, e-Commerce, secure
Web server, high availability server and run-time solutions like eCos and
RedBoot. For this platform, Red Hat provides end-to-end professional services
including Professional Consulting, Engineering services, Technical Support
services, and Global Learning services. Red Hat Network is the premier
Internet based service that simplifies and integrates the deployment and
management of these offers. More information about Red Hat is available at
www.redhat.com. Red Hat is headquartered in Research Triangle Park, N.C. and
has offices worldwide. For investor inquiries, contact Gabriel Szulik at Red
Hat, (919) 547-0012, x439.

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For additional information, please contact:
Melissa London					
Red Hat, Inc.						
(919) 547-0012					
melissa@redhat.com					

Maribel Lopez/Ben Conrad
Schwartz Communications
(781) 684-0770
redhat@schwartz-pr.com