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Red Hat, Inc. (NASDAQ: RHAT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions to the enterprise, today announced that it will webcast its annual meeting of stockholders on Thursday, August 17, 2006 beginning at 11:00 a.m. ET. The live audio webcast will be provided by Thomson/CCBN and will be accessible at the company's Investor Relations page at http://investors.redhat.com. A replay of the webcast will be available at the end of the live event. The webcast is also being distributed through the Thomson StreetEvents Network to both institutional and individual investors. Individual investors can listen to the meeting at www.fulldisclosure.com, Thomson/CCBN's individual investor portal, powered by StreetEvents. Institutional investors can access the webcast via Thomson's password-protected event management site, StreetEvents (www.streetevents.com). About Red Hat, Inc. Red Hat, the world's leading open source and Linux provider, is headquartered in Raleigh, N.C. with satellite offices spanning the globe. The most trusted name in open source, CIOs and other senior-level IT executives have ranked Red Hat as the industry's most valued vendor for two consecutive years in the CIO Insight Magazine Vendor Value study. 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 applications, management, and middleware solutions, including JBoss Enterprise Middleware Suite (JEMS). Red Hat is accelerating the shift to service-oriented architectures (SOA) and enabling the next generation of web-enabled applications running on a low-cost, secure open source platform. 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. LINUX is a trademark of Linus Torvalds . RED HAT is a registered trademark of Red Hat, Inc. All other names and trademarks are the property of their respective owners.