Intel, Red Hat Launch Global Solution Acceleration Program Program Provides Customers with Tools and Technical Data to Help Accelerate and Optimize Advanced Linux Solutions

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Intel, Red Hat Launch Global Solution Acceleration Program

Intel, Red Hat Launch Global Solution Acceleration Program
Program Provides Customers with Tools and Technical Data to
Help Accelerate and Optimize Advanced Linux Solutions
LINUXWORLD, Boston, April 4, 2006 Intel Corporation and Red Hat
(NASDAQ: RHAT), the worlds leading provider of open source to the
enterprise, today announced the creation of a global program to
help customers plan for, accelerate and optimize their deployments
of Linux solutions.

The program will be the first of its kind for
Linux solutions development, initially focused on developing and
disseminating tools for virtualization of enterprise
computing.
The Red Hat and Intel Solution Acceleration Program will give
customers real-time access to the critical information, tools and
support they need to build and optimize high-value Linux solutions
on Intel-based platforms, said Jon Bork, director of Intels Open
Source Program Office. This program will help customers quickly and
effectively take advantage of new Intel platforms and technologies
as they come to market.
Were responding to what customers have told us they really need
to support their advanced deployments of Linux and open source,
said Tim Yeaton, executive vice president of Enterprise Solutions
at Red Hat.

The programs Intel and Red Hat have selected are aimed
at equipping customers with in-depth domain knowledge and providing
hard core data to make complex architectural decisions.
The Red Hat and Intel Solution Acceleration Program operates
online and at centers that include hubs in McLean, Va.; Mumbai,
India; and Munich, Germany; and 14 satellite locations spanning the
globe. The hubs will be equipped with Intel Itanium 2 and Intel
Xeon processor-based servers, Intel Pentium 4 processor-based
corporate desktops, Intel Centrino mobile technology-based laptops,
and Intel-based storage devices, including key pre-production
platforms.

All of the centers will be located at Red Hat facilities
and be utilized by services and solution experts from Intel and Red
Hat, as well as customers and other collaborators who participate
in solutions deployment.
Services offered at the centers and online will include:
* Training and Knowledge transfer: Customers will have access to
advanced training as well as a knowledge repository of technical
white papers, case studies, benchmarks, Web seminars, reference
solutions and more.
* Proof of Concept Support: Customers can save time and resources
by running proof of concepts using the state-of-the-art hardware,
software and technical support offered at the program centers.
Customers will be invited to actively participate at the local
centers.

* Reference Solutions and Certified Solution Stacks: The program
will give customers access to information about previously tested
or deployed solutions based on Red Hat and Intel technology. Red
Hat has begun certifying a number of software solution stacks, and
through the program will work with Intel to expand the number of
certified solution stacks available and introduce a hardware
component into certified solution stacks.
* Application Testing and Porting: The program will make available
hardware and software for customers to test recently ported RISC
and other code, and test operating systems and application
compatibility.
* Channel and Vertical Product Definition: Red Hat and Intel will
work together to define and test hardware and software solutions
specifically for the reseller channel and for select vertical
market segments.

* Advanced Knowledge Projects: The program will also concentrate
on new technology initiatives to ensure the combination of Red Hat
Enterprise Linux on Intel platforms supports the latest technology
trends including virtualization and multicore. For example, program
centers will be used for pilot projects of Intel Virtualization
technology on Fedora Core 5 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 using
the Xen hypervisor.
The Red Hat and Intel Solution Acceleration Program will begin
operating this month. For more information please visit
www.

redhat.com/promo/intel.
About Red Hat, Inc.
Red Hat, the worlds 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 industrys
most valued vendor for two consecutive years in the CIO Insight
MagazineVendor 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 middleware, applications and management
solutions. Red Hat also offers support, training and consulting
services to its customers worldwide and through top-tier
partnerships. Red Hats 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 at www.

redhat.com.
Intel, the world leader in silicon innovation, develops
technologies, products and initiatives to continually advance how
people work and live. Additional information about Intel is
available at www.

intel.com/pressroom.
Source: Intel

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