Red Hat to Webcast 2008 Analyst Day

Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE:RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, will host its Analyst Day on Tuesday, October 7, 2008, from 9:00 am to 12:30 pm ET (6:00 am to 9:30 am PT) in New York City, NY.

A live audio webcast of the meeting with supporting materials will be available on the investor relations page of Red Hat’s corporate website at http://investors.redhat.com. A replay will be available after the live event ends.

The webcast is also being distributed through the Thomson StreetEvents Network to both institutional and individual investors. Individual investors can listen to the webcast at www.fulldisclosure.com, Thomson/CCBN’s individual investor portal, powered by StreetEvents. Institutional investors can access the event via Thomson’s password-protected event management site, StreetEvents (www.streetevents.com).

About Red Hat, Inc.

Red Hat, the world’s leading open source solutions provider, is headquartered in Raleigh, NC, with over 60 offices spanning the globe. CIOs have ranked Red Hat first for value in Enterprise Software for four 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 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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Contacts

Red Hat, Inc.
Tom McCallum, Investor Relations
919-754-4630
investors {at} redhat(.)com