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RED HAT LINUX POWERS CREDIT SUISSE FIRST BOSTON'S MASSIVE GLOBAL TRADING
ARCHITECTURE

Delivers 20x Performance Boost for Mission Critical Applications

RALEIGH, N.C--April 8, 2002--Red Hat, Inc. (Nasdaq: RHAT), the world's
premier open source and Linux provider, today announced that a mission
critical component of the Credit Suisse First Boston (CSFB) worldwide
financial trading architecture has been successfully migrated from Unix to
Red Hat Linux. CSFB is a leading global investment bank serving
institutional, corporate, government and individual clients. Its application,
called Agora (Greek for marketplace), performs complex financial transactions
such as basket trading, time slicing, and institutional order flow. It is
able to drive thousands of orders, in a matter of seconds, to locations
around the globe, including the U.K., Japan, Hong Kong and Korea.

"In an environment of increasing trading volumes and surges in demand, our
systems need to be agile. We can gain a competitive advantage with a system
that is flexible enough to constantly adapt to new business requirements
while always improving prices for our customers," said Steve Yatko, director
and CTO of Securities IT at CSFB. "Since implementing Red Hat Linux on the
Egenera BladeFrame, we've noticed significant performance enhancements. Agora
has evolved to the point where we are executing record trading volumes."

Agora's enterprise notification system, powered by Red Hat Linux, processes
roughly 35 million global and 25 million U.S. transactions each day. CSFB
converted from a four-way RISC-based architecture to a two-way Intel
architecture running Red Hat on an Intel chip. With Egenera as the platform
provider, Agora's structure is made up of high-powered Egenera BladeFrame
systems running Red Hat Linux. The combination of Red Hat Linux with the
BladeFrame consolidates servers and improves performance while lowering cost
for business-critical applications.

As a result of its Red Hat implementation, CSFB will consolidate more than 20
RISC-based machines to only a few Intel processors, which can process up to a
half-billion transactions each day per Egenera Processing Blade. CSFB has
also noticed a 20x increase in overall performance, in contrast to
traditional legacy UNIX systems.

"The results CSFB has achieved with Red Hat Linux show the power not only of
our technology, or their knowledge of their own application, but the strength
of the relationship and the results of working together as partners," said
Michael Tiemann, CTO of Red Hat. "Even when an application is developed and
tuned on a proprietary Unix platform, I fully expect to see superior
performance when the application is migrated to Red Hat Linux on Intel
processors. But I must honestly say that I am amazed to see how significantly
the results favor the Red Hat Linux platform for this decidedly enterprise
application. My hat is off to the engineers from both companies for achieving
this outstanding result."

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