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- INTEL, NETSCAPE, GREYLOCK AND BENCHMARK PARTNERS TAKE EQUITY POSITIONS
- IN RED HAT SOFTWARE
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- Red Hat Establishes Enterprise Computing Division for Its Linux OS
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- SAN JOSE, Calif., September 29, 1998 - Today at ISPCON Fall '98, Red Hat
- Software, Inc., a leading distributor of the Linux operating system,
- announced that Intel, Netscape Communications Corporation and venture
- capital firms Greylock and Benchmark Partners have taken minority equity
- positions in the company. Red Hat builds, maintains and provides technical
- support for the Red Hat operating system. Linux runs on Intel, Alpha and
- Sun SPARC platforms. Financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed.
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- Additionally, the firm announced it is establishing an Enterprise
- Computing Division, according to Red Hat president, Robert F. Young. The
- new division will offer enterprise-grade products and services to support
- global, mission-critical applications. "As the growing number of users
- demonstrates, the Linux operating system is ready for enterprise-wide
- applications," Young said. "Red Hat intends to further extend its Linux
- leadership into the enterprise."
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- "Today's announcement reaffirms Netscape's commitment to Linux as a
- strategic enterprise-ready platform," said John Paul, senior vice
- president and general manager of the Server Products Division at
- Netscape. "Netscape's customers are demanding a manageable, scalable
- and reliable Internet operating system for deploying the applications
- required in the net economy. Customers are finding that Linux provides
- the manageability, scalability and reliability they require."
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- "Our investment in Red Hat demonstrates the technological value of the
- open source development model for technologies such as operating systems,"
- stated William S. Kaiser, general partner at Greylock. "They have done a
- great job of supporting the open source development model and delivering
- the benefits of that model to a growing number of Linux users."
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- "Since July, the five leading providers of database software - Oracle,
- Informix, Computer Associates, Sybase and IBM - have all announced plans
- to support Red Hat's Linux OS," stated Red Hat's Young. "We believe that
- their OS strategies, combined with today's announced investments, continue
- to fuel the adoption of Linux as a robust and secure operating system."
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- Red Hat Software, Inc, based in Triangle Research Park, N.C., is a
- software development company that sells products and provides services
- related to Linux. Red Hat's mission is to provide professional tools
- to computing professionals. The company manufactures shrink-wrapped
- software versions of the Linux operating system, making it accessible
- to the broadest possible range of computer users. The company works
- with development groups around the world via the Internet to review,
- package and develop Linux-based tools, making them useful for computing
- professionals. The company builds tools that are released as freely
- reusable software available for unrestricted use. Red Hat additionally
- publishes books and software applications and provides technical
- support. Visit Red Hat on the web at http://www.redhat.com/
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- ABOUT LINUX:
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- Linux is a cooperatively developed, POSIX-based multi-user, multi-tasking
- operating system used worldwide in commercial, academic and development
- organizations. Linux is used as a low-cost, fully functional UNIX
- workstation for applications ranging from Internet servers to reliable
- work group computing. The operating system was initially developed by
- Linus Torvalds. Today, the core product and enhancements, including all
- source code, are freely available on the Internet under a GPL license.
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