Red Hat to Present a Cloud Technology Update via Live Webcast on August 10

RALEIGH, N.C.--()--Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that members of the Red Hat executive team will host a press conference that will be broadcast live via webcast at 12pm ET on Wednesday, August 10.

To view the live webcast, or to watch the replay, please visit http://www-waa-akam.thomson-webcast.net/us/dispatching/?event_id=ae1914cbd89923598c72bce74f924cfb&portal_id=af9b227bf07c733390c2738ee0330646.

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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 seven 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.

Forward-Looking Statements

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Contacts

Red Hat, Inc.
Kerri Catallozzi, 919-754-4268
kcatallo@redhat.com

Release Summary

Red Hat to host cloud technology update on August 10, 2011 at 12pm ET.

Contacts

Red Hat, Inc.
Kerri Catallozzi, 919-754-4268
kcatallo@redhat.com