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the Azure Hybrid Benefit to reuse existing on-premise licenses for both Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Windows
Licenses.

Supporting Quotes:

Chris Wright, senior vice president and chief technology officer, Red Hat

“As organizations continue to modernize and move away from legacy virtualization solutions, it is critical to choose a
secure computing foundation for the future that can adapt to their current and evolving multi-infrastructure
environments. Building upon our extensive history of collaboration and joint engineering efforts with Microsoft
Azure, Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization running on Azure Red Hat OpenShift delivers more consistent orchestration
for VMs and containers alike, setting organizations on a clear path to modern application development and
deployment.”

Brendan Burns, corporate vice president, Azure Compute, Microsoft:

“As customers modernize and move their apps from traditional virtual-machine-based fabrics that are on-premises
to modern Kubernetes platforms, some components still need to run on traditional virtual machines for a while. To
address this, Microsoft and Red Hat are collaborating to bring open-source innovation from the KubeVirt project into
Azure Red Hat OpenShift. What I’m most excited about is how this enables customers to add virtualization
capabilities to Azure Red Hat OpenShift, which allows them to modernize at their own pace, and get the best return
on investment as they transition to the cloud.”

About Red Hat:

Red Hat is the open hybrid cloud technology leader, delivering a trusted, consistent, and comprehensive foundation
for transformative IT innovation and AI applications. Its portfolio of cloud, developer, AI, Linux, automation, and
application platform technologies enables any application, anywhere—from the datacenter to the edge. As the
world’s leading provider of enterprise open source software solutions, Red Hat invests in open ecosystems and
communities to solve tomorrow’s IT challenges. Collaborating with partners and customers, Red Hat helps them
build, connect, automate, secure, and manage their IT environments, supported by consulting services and award-
winning training and certification offerings.

Forward-Looking Statements:

Except for the historical information and discussions contained herein, statements contained in this press release
may constitute forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of
1995. Forward-looking statements are based on the company’s current assumptions regarding future business and
financial performance. These statements involve a number of risks, uncertainties and other factors that could cause
actual results to differ materially. Any forward-looking statement in this press release speaks only as of the date on
which it is made. Except as required by law, the company assumes no obligation to update or revise any forward-
looking statements.

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