Top Vendors Throw Weight Behind Linux Operating System

Support for Linux has been growing ever since Netscape made its initial announcement of support for the Development model of Linux--freed source code and a license that gives the user complete control. Netscape recently announced that it will support Red Hat Linux as a platform for its server software.

Now other top vendors are following suit. Oracle® Corporation, the leading supplier of software for information management, will support the Red Hat Linux 5.1 OS. They have announced plans to port Oracle8(tm) and Oracle8.1, which are scheduled to ship by year's end, to Linux on the Intel platform by early 1999. Please see http://www.oracle.com/html/linux.html

"Customer interest in Oracle software for Linux was sufficient enough for us to pay serious attention." said Tim Payne, Director of Database Marketing at Oracle Corporation. "The recent growth of Linux in the marketplace and the demand we receive for Oracle to support Linux speak volumes about the viability and the future of the Linux operating system."

Robert Young, President of Red Hat, Inc. said, "When you have top tier database vendors validating the strength of the Linux Operating System, it truly serves as a catalyst for the wide-scale adoption of Linux in the Enterprise market."

With the support of Oracle and Netscape, as well as the support of other leading vendors such as Informix, Computer Associates, Interbase, Corel, and Cygnus, Red Hat Linux has the applications that today's industry demands from its technology. For a multi-tasking, multi-user, well-supported OS near you, check out Linux.

ABOUT LINUX Linux is the freely distributable, cooperatively-developed POSIX-based, multi-user, multi-tasking operating system used worldwide. Linux is used as a high value, fully-functional UNIX® workstation for applications ranging from Internet Servers to reliable work group computing.

ABOUT RED HAT® SOFTWARE, INC. Founded in 1994, Red Hat, Inc. is based in Research Triangle Park, NC, where it builds and maintains the award-winning Red Hat Linux operating system. Red Hat Linux for Intel®, DEC Alpha(TM), and Sun SPARC® platforms continues to gain recognition in the computer industry: From 1996 to the present, Red Hat Linux was twice named InfoWorld's Product of the Year, was given a Productivity accolade in Software Development's "Jolt" Awards, and was named an Environment/Desktop finalist in the Ziff-Davis European Excellence Awards. Red Hat, Inc. also publishes and maintains commercial applications for Linux including OSF Motif, CDE, and the Applixware Office Suite.