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To: Ms. Baby Boomer who wrote (8505)	1/31/2001 2:30:46 PM
From: Don Green	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 14451

SGI Names Paul F. McNamara Vice President of Open Source Story Filed: Wednesday, January 31, 2001 10:00 AM EST MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Jan 31, 2001 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- SGI (NYSE: SGI) today announced that Paul F. McNamara has been named vice president of open source for SGI. In this role, McNamara, 39, will be responsible for formulating SGI's plans and guiding its actions as SGI strengthens its commitment to the Linux(R) operating system and the open-source movement. He will report to Kenneth L. Coleman, executive vice president of Global Sales, Service and Marketing, SGI. "SGI continues to demonstrate leadership in the open source movement through our contributions of core technologies such as OpenGL application programming interface and XFS file system software," said Kenneth L. Coleman, executive vice president of Global Sales, Service and Marketing, SGI. "Paul's experience will be enormously valuable in both guiding and evangelizing our strategy." Prior to joining SGI, McNamara was vice president of business development and later vice president of products and platforms for Red Hat, Inc. (Nasdaq: RHAT), where he was a key figure in Red Hat's meteoric rise to prominence in the computer industry. McNamara joined Red Hat in May 1998 and was responsible for negotiating and structuring Red Hat's industry-shaping relationships with Compaq, Dell, IBM, Intel, Oracle, SAP and others. McNamara was also a key architect of Red Hat's subscription-based business model. Prior to joining Red Hat, McNamara was president and chief operating officer of Asset Management Technologies (AMT), a software company that he founded in 1994. Prior to AMT, McNamara held a series of management positions at IBM. McNamara earned his B.S. degree in mechanical engineering from Drexel University. "SGI has a hard-earned reputation for truly superior technology and has demonstrated a fundamental commitment to open source," said McNamara. "As SGI moves aggressively to build communities around the technologies it has pioneered, its customers and users will benefit from the broad base of support and accelerated innovation characterized by open-source development."