Open Source Visionaries to Keynote Red Hat Summit 2006; Cory Doctorow
and Eben Moglen Top List of Notable Speakers at Industry's Premiere
Open Source Technology Summit

RALEIGH, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 11, 2006--Red Hat (NASDAQ: RHAT),
the world's leading provider of open source to the enterprise, today
announced that world renowned visionaries Cory Doctorow, noted author
and fellow at the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Eben Moglen,
Chairman of the Software Freedom Law Center, will keynote the second
annual Red Hat Summit in Nashville, Tenn. The Red Hat Summit will be
held May 30-June 2, 2006 at the Gaylord Opryland Resort and Convention
Center in Nashville.


The industry's premiere open source knowledge exchange, Red Hat Summit
2006 is expected to draw current and future Red Hat customers and
partners from around the world. In addition to Mr. Doctorow and Prof.
Moglen, Red Hat Summit 2006 will feature a variety of well-known
industry speakers, hands-on technical workshops, a technology lab,
roundtable discussions and product demonstrations, as well as sessions
geared toward key open source issues and technologies including
security, virtualization and storage.

Mr. Cory Doctorow currently serves as a fellow to the Electronic
Frontier Foundation (www.eff.org), a non-profit civil liberties group
that defends freedom in technology law, policy, standards and
treaties. Before his recent appointment, he served as the European
Affairs Coordinator for the EFF. In addition to being a published
science fiction novelist and accomplished technology writer, Mr.
Doctorow worked extensively at the United Nations and various
technical standards bodies. Further information on Mr. Doctorow can be
found at craphound.com.

Mr. Eben Moglen is a professor of law and legal history at Columbia
University is the founder and chairman of the Software Freedom Law
Center and, serves pro bono as general counsel for the Free Software
Foundation. He was awarded the Electronic Frontier Foundation's 2003
Pioneer Award for contribution to freedom in the electronic society
and also serves as a director of the Public Patent Foundation.
Information on Prof. Moglen's work is available at
http://moglen.law.columbia.edu/now.

Red Hat Summit 2006 will kick-off on Tuesday, May 30 with an address
from Red Hat's chairman, president and chief executive, Matthew
Szulik.

For the latest information on Red Hat Summit 2006, and to learn how
you can attend please visit, www.redhat.com/promo/summit/.

About Red Hat, Inc.

Red Hat, the world's leading open source and Linux provider, is
headquartered in Raleigh, NC with satellite offices spanning the
globe. Red Hat is leading Linux and open source solutions into the
mainstream by making high quality, low cost technology accessible. Red
Hat provides operating system software along with middleware,
applications and management solutions. Red Hat also offers support,
training and consulting services to its customers worldwide and
through top-tier partnerships. Red Hat's open source strategy offers
customers a long term plan for building infrastructures that are based
on and leverage open source technologies with focus on security and
ease of management. Learn more: http://www.redhat.com

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