Red Hat, Nokia collaborate on carrier-grade telecom solution  

RALEIGH, NC

November 16, 2006

Red Hat, Inc., provider of open source solutions, and Nokia announced that the
two companies have agreed to collaborate on carrier-grade telecommunications
solutions. Nokia's Networks Business group has selected Red Hat Enterprise Linux
as its primary operating system for carrier-grade server platforms. Red Hat will
provide Nokia with onsite consulting, support, certification and training
services, and will be tightly integrated with Nokia's technical team for
telecommunications solutions development.

"The Red Hat Enterprise Linux platform has long been known for high levels
of reliability and availability in situations where downtime is not an option.
Working with Nokia, we plan to make our solution for the telecommunications
industry even stronger," said Paul Cormier, Executive VP -Engineering, Red
Hat.

Juha Carlson, GM - Product Platforms at Networks, Nokia stated, "The aim is
to provide superior customer value with open, advanced and high quality
products, solutions and services. Our cooperation with Red Hat on Enterprise
Linux is building on Nokia's experience and commitment to open ecosystems and
technologies."

Nokia will continue to work with Red Hat on carrier-grade server platforms that
are used as the underlying infrastructure for a wide range of emerging Nokia
solutions. Nokia will focus its deployment on the FlexiPlatform, and will
complete full integration with Red Hat Enterprise Linux on multiple hardware
variants this year.