Red Hat to Webcast Results for Third Quarter Fiscal Year 2009

• Press Release
• Source: Shareholder.com; Red Hat, Inc.
• On 10:30 am EST, Monday December 1, 2008

RALEIGH, N.C., Dec. 1, 2008 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE:RHT - News), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, will discuss results of its third quarter fiscal 2009 on Monday, December 22, 2008, beginning at 5:00 p.m. ET.

The live webcast can be accessed on Red Hat's Investor Relations Web page http://investors.redhat.com and a replay will be available beginning approximately two hours after the conclusion of the live event.

About Red Hat, Inc.

Red Hat, the world's leading open source solutions provider, is headquartered in Raleigh, NC with over 65 offices spanning the globe. CIOs ranked Red Hat first for value in Enterprise Software from 2004-2007 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 applications, management and Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) solutions, including the JBoss Enterprise Middleware Suite. Red Hat also offers support, training and consulting services to its customers worldwide. Learn more: http://www.redhat.com.

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          Red Hat, Inc.
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