Leading Open Source distributor to share new Red Hat offerings including JBoss and Red Hat Exchange with Middle East corporate end users and channel partners

United Arab Emirates, 22 July 2007: Opennet Middle East & Africa, the Master Distributor and Certified Training Centre for Red Hat Linux products in GCC, Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt, and all African French-speaking countries, has announced that it will be participating alongside its vendor, Red Hat on Stand A6-11 in Hall 6. Opennet will use the opportunity to meet its existing channel partners and customers to update them on new products and technology available from Red Hat including JBoss, RHEL 5.0 and Red Hat Exchange (RHX).

"Gitex is a very important time on our calendar (like any serious IT company in the region) and we use this opportunity to invite our partners and customers from around the region to meet the visiting VIPs from Red Hat," said David Allinson, general manager, Opennet MEA. "Open Source is fast gaining momentum in the Enterprise Computing space and the launch of RHEL 5.0, RHX and JBoss applications just puts us ahead of our competition in positioning Red Hat as the Open Source leader in the Middle East."

Opennet (representing Red Hat) will also be participating in a special debate, Build or Buy being organized by Dubai World Trade Centre. The debate that will be held on 9th September (day 2) is aimed at discussing the pros and cons of corporate organizations developing their own software and will involve some of the leading software vendors and IT developers around the region. These are part of the new Gitex conferences being introduced this year.

Opennet will also have its trainers and certified professionals available for consultancy on the company's Red Hat training and certification courses and professional services.

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About Opennet MEA
Opennet MEA is the Master Distributor and Certified Training & Education Center of Red Hat Inc. in the following regions and countries: United Arab Emirates (UAE), Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), Sultanate of Oman, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco and all African French-speaking countries. Launched in 2003 in Dubai as head quarter for the Opennet Middle East & Africa operations, Opennet MEA aims to transfer its expertise on deploying Red Hat Linux to its covering regions by providing full range of consulting and professional services and assisting organizations and companies with the assessment, design and implementation of Linux solutions for ensuring high availability, reliability, performance, scalability and manageability within IT environments.

Opennet's Major Share Holder is GMH, one of Tunisia's Top 5 Holding Groups with more that $400 Million Total Sales in Various Industries for FY'2005.  

About Red Hat, Inc.
Red Hat, the world's leading open source solutions provider, is headquartered in Raleigh, NC with over 50 satellite offices spanning the globe. CIOs have ranked Red Hat first for value in Enterprise Software for three consecutive years in the CIO Insight Magazine Vendor Value study. Red Hat provides high-quality, low-cost technology with its operating system platform, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, together with applications, management and Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) solutions, including the JBoss Enterprise Middleware Suite. Red Hat also offers support, training and consulting services to its customers worldwide. Learn more: http://www.redhat.com.

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