Red Hat Achieves Defense Department COE Certification

E-GOV WEB ENABLED GOVERNMENT CONFERENCE, WASHINGTON, DC—Feb. 11, 2003—Red Hat, Inc. (Nasdaq:RHAT), the world’s premier open source and Linux provider, today announced at the eGov Event in Washington, DC that Red Hat Linux Advanced Server is the first Linux platform to achieve Department of Defense (DoD) Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) Common Operating Environment (COE) certification. COE is a DoD software security and interoperability specification and is broadly recognized as a critical computing standard across the U.S. Government. Red Hat Linux Advanced Server achieved certification running on IBM eServer® xSeries® 330.