GroundWork Open Source Expands Relationship with Red Hat

San Francisco, CA—Oct. 30, 2007—GroundWork Open Source, Inc. (www.groundworkopensource.com), the leader in open source systems and network management software, today announced a significant expansion in the company’s relationship with Red Hat, the world's leading provider of open source solutions, through Red Hat Exchange (RHX), the innovative online marketplace launched earlier this year. Red Hat will now offer additional products and support offerings, including 24x7 telephone premium support for GroundWork products, and the sale of GroundWork training classes.

“Following our early collaboration with GroundWork through RHX, it was a natural decision to expand our relationship,” said Donald Fischer, vice president of online services at Red Hat. “We think customers will welcome the additional options in support we’re offering.”

Effective November 15, customers will be offered three levels of support to meet their needs, add-on modules and the option to buy GroundWork training. Training classes will be fulfilled through GroundWork University (http://www.groundworkopensource.com/university), GroundWork’s comprehensive training curriculum, and are available either onsite at GroundWork’s offices in San Fran-cisco or online.

“Groundwork has been a participant in Red Hat Exchange since its initial offering in May 2007, and the relationship has been beneficial to our organization and customers,” said Ranga Rangachari, CEO and president of GroundWork Open Source. “We’re very pleased to be able to offer a more complete solution to our joint customers going forth.”

To kick off the expanded relationship, GroundWork and Red Hat will present an hour-long, demonstration-based webinar on open source alternatives to enterprise and sys-tems management. The discussion will be led by Bret Hunter, director of partner mar-keting for Red Hat Exchange, and Thomas Stocking, founder and director of technical marketing for GroundWork. The webinar will take place at 2 p.m. EDT on November 1. Registration for the webinar is free at: http://www.info.redhat.com/forms/20071101RHXGroundworkWebinar.

About Red Hat, Inc.

Red Hat, the world's leading open source solutions provider, is headquartered in Ral-eigh, 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 serv-ices to its customers worldwide. Learn more: http://www.redhat.com.

About GroundWork

San Francisco-based GroundWork Open Source, Inc. (http://www.groundworkopensource.com) is the fastest growing provider of open source network and systems management software, delivering enterprise-class IT manage-ment solutions that offer unprecedented network, system and application availability at a fraction of the cost of proprietary solutions. An integral part of GroundWork’s “Just Right IT management” philosophy is to ensure that its software and services seamlessly inte-grate with a customer’s management solutions – thus preserving their existing invest-ment while simultaneously providing value. GroundWork’s solutions are in use at orga-nizations like AOL, SAIC, Seton Hall University, Siemens, and World Bank. Ground-Work’s solutions are available from GroundWork, its partners including Redhat, Unisys, Fujitsu, and a worldwide network of channel partners. The company is privately held, with investments from Canaan Partners, Mayfield Fund, JAFCO Ventures and SAP Ventures.

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