Red Hat Announces Headliners for Summit

Red Hat, Inc. (www.redhat.com), a provider of open source solutions to the enterprise, today announced the headlining speakers for their first-annual Red Hat Summit.

Summit 2005 will be held in New Orleans June 1-3 and will bring together the diverse people that make up the open source community, including community contributors, developers, customers and partners. The Summit will blend different views and content into a program useful for attendees building and enabling open source architectures.

"As a frequent public speaker, I am well aware of the need to tailor a speech to a given audience. The Red Hat Summit gives our distinguished speakers a chance to "kick it up a notch" knowing that the attendees at this conference have made their choice and are now looking to build upon that choice," said Michael Tiemann, vice president of Open Source Affairs at Red Hat.

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.

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