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Landmark standardizes on Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Leading Oil & Gas software and services provider chooses Red Hat to power software, hosting and consulting business.

RALEIGH, NCApril 11, 2005Red Hat, Inc. (Nasdaq: RHAT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions to the enterprise, today announced that it has entered into a multi-year relationship with Landmark, a product line of Halliburton's (NYSE:HAL) Digital & Consulting Solutions division, making Red Hat Network the compute management platform of choice for Landmark's "Workflow on Demand" services business.
In addition, Red Hat Enterprise Linux is being added to Landmark's list of supported platforms for Landmark's suite of integrated exploration and production software technology. Landmark plans to deploy Red Hat Enterprise Linux on 200 software developer workstations and high-end server systems.

Online Stock Market Trading "Many of our customers are moving towards a Linux solution as an alternative to current Unix platforms," said Jonathan Lewis, vice president, Innovation and Marketing for Halliburton's Digital and Consulting Solutions division. "Landmark chose to align with the market leader, Red Hat, because of its commitment to the Open Source community and its relationship with commercial OEM hardware and ISV organizations. This investment assures that we can move with them in an open, flexible fashion."
"Using Red Hat Network with Provisioning in our "Workflow on Demand" services center allows Landmark to deliver ultra-fast, mutli-compute node scalability at a relatively low cost to our customers," Lewis added. "The reduced cycle time provides cost savings and increased accuracy for some of the oil and gas industries' key business processes."

"Red Hat Enterprise Linux is the clear choice for an open source enterprise platform, " said Zorian Rotenberg, director, business development, Acronis, Inc. "By taking a snapshot of the Linux system, Acronis True Image Server for Linux enables Red Hat Linux users to protect and recover their data, whether it's an individual file or an entire operating system, in minutes instead of hours or days."

Stock Investing Course "Landmark and Red Hat are working together to better understand and meet the unique processing and data management needs of upstream oil and gas organizations," said Paul Cormier, Executive Vice President of Engineering at Red Hat. "Red Hat Network with Provisioning will help keep costs down in a rapidly changing and growing environment while Landmark applications on Red Hat Enterprise Linux will deliver an integrated solution to Landmark's end customers in oil and gas."

"At Orbitz, we currently use both JBoss Application Server and Red Hat Enterprise Linux. We believe the acquisition of JBoss and its integration with Red Hat will support our efforts to be more cost effective as we develop and deploy applications, " said Chuck Clark, Director of Platform Technology, Orbitz. "We look forward to a more seamless integration of JBoss middleware components with Red Hat enterprise solutions."

Stock Market Game Halliburton's Landmark is the leading supplier of software and services for the upstream oil and gas industry. The company's software solutions span exploration, production, drilling, business decision analysis and data management. Landmark offers a broad range of consulting services that enable customers to optimize their technical, business and decision processes.

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- Acronis, Inc. (www.acronis.com), the technological leader in storage management software, announced it has joined the Red Hat Inc. ( RHAT) ISV Partner Program, which offers software vendors the opportunity to easily access the tools and resources necessary to develop and test their applications on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, the leading platform for open source computing. Acronis also has joined as a Red Hat Ready Partner.

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