RALEIGH, N.C. and BOSTON – RED HAT SUMMIT AND JBOSS WORLD 2012 – June 25, 2012 – Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced the finalists in the sixth annual Red Hat Innovation Awards. The awards program recognizes customers, partners and communities for their outstanding use, innovation and extension of Red Hat solutions to solve unique business problems today and in the future. The Red Hat Innovation Awards finalists are recognized in seven separate categories, and category winners were selected by a panel of experts and ranked based on the uniqueness, complexity and magnitude of their Red Hat implementation.