Sep-21-2005

Red Hat Press Release:

NORDICMIND BECOMES RED HAT DISTRIBUTOR FOR FINLAND, DENMARK AND THE BALTIC REGION

Partnership ensures the availability of professional open source solutions especially for Finnish and Baltic enterprises

Stockholm, September 21, 2005 - Red Hat, Inc. (Nasdaq:RHAT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions to the enterprise, announced that Nordicmind has signed up as a Red Hat Distributor. The agreement will enable Nordicmind to provide integration of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Solutions and related services to resellers and system integrators in Finland, Denmark, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.

- Becoming a Red Hat Distributor formalizes our long term cooperation with Red Hat. The agreement enables us now to provide Red Hat products with a fast, personal and flexible delivery among our highly skilled professional services. We are ready to create further growth for Red Hat especially in Finland and Baltic Region, said Esko Wessman, Director of Technology at Nordicmind.

A Red Hat Distributor is a regional market leader who has made a commitment to offer enterprise level Linux and open source solutions to their customers. Red Hat has over 60 Distributors in Europe to enable businesses to purchase Linux based solutions from trusted suppliers in their local region.

- Linux and open source solutions are being adopted at an increasing pace in the Baltic region. Nordicmind has deep experience in IT services and are well positioned to drive the adoption of Linux with their customers and will be a very important distributor in extending our reach in Finland, Denmark and especially in Baltic region. We are pleased to welcome Nordicmind to the growing list of Red Hat Distributors in Europe, said Magnus Svensson, Regional Manager for Red Hat in the Nordic region.

About Nordicmind
Nordicmind Ltd works in close cooperation with leading system integrators and hardware vendors as a value added distributor for Northern Europe and CIS Countries. Customers represent all industry verticals covering telecommunication, finance, media, healthcare and governmental departments across 11 countries. www.nordicmind.com

About Red Hat, Inc.
Red Hat, the world's leading open source and Linux provider, is headquartered in Raleigh, NC with satellite offices spanning the globe. 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 middleware, applications and management solutions. 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.