[June 25, 2010]

Red Hat Summit and JBoss World Return to Boston in 2011

Red Hat (News - Alert), Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced it will host the seventh annual Red Hat Summit and JBoss World in Boston, May 3-6, 2011. This premier open source event will return to Boston for a third time and its second consecutive year, bringing together customers, partners and open source enthusiasts to discuss global technology challenges.

"The Boston area serves as the Northeast's epicenter for technology, education and research," said Paul Cormier, executive vice president and president, Products and Technologies, Red Hat. "With Red Hat's worldwide engineering headquarters located near the city, the area is fast becoming a hotbed for open source software development and talent. We just concluded a successful 2010 Red Hat Summit and JBoss World in Boston with record attendance levels, and the city is a natural choice to host the 2011 events."

Red Hat Summit and JBoss World have grown in size and scale each year as open source continues to be a game changer across the technology industry. Red Hat sits at the crossroads of major trends affecting IT today and its products and technologies are helping customers address challenges including flat IT budgets, increased user expectations for speed and functionality and cloud computing. The Red Hat Summit and JBoss World deliver comprehensive insight and expertise to enable customers and partners to integrate and optimize open source solutions within IT architectures.

The 2011 Red Hat Summit will be held at the Boston Seaport Hotel and World Trade Center. A call for papers will open in Fall 2010 with registration opening in Winter 2011. For more information on registration and sponsorships, please visit www.theredhatsummit.com. Follow Red Hat Summit and JBoss World 2011 on twitter at http://twitter.com/RedHatSummit.

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About Red Hat, Inc.

Red Hat, the world's leading provider of open source solutions and an S&P 500 company, is headquartered in Raleigh, NC with over 65 offices spanning the globe. CIOs ranked Red Hat as one of the top vendors delivering value in Enterprise Software for six consecutive years in the CIO Insight Magazine Vendor Value survey. Red Hat provides high-quality, affordable technology with its operating system platform, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, together with virtualization, applications, management and Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) solutions, including Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization and JBoss Enterprise Middleware. Red Hat also offers support, training and consulting services to its customers worldwide. Learn more: http://www.redhat.com.

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