JBoss chief Fleury talks up Red Hat acquisition
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| CRN: But doesn't the deal with Red Hat hinder interoperability and JBoss'
| cooperation with Microsoft ,whose Windows faces increasing competition
| from Linux.
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| Even as we said at [IBM's] keynote, Websphere will continue to run on Red
| Hat Linux. BEA will continue to run on Red Hat. And 50 percent of our
| users are based on Windows so it would be suicidal to tell customers
| they can't do it. This is about customer choice. Customers want freedom
| of choice and they're getting it.
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| CRN: IBM said it makes $1 billion per quarter on its Linux sales. The
| revenues for Linux distributors are much less than proprietary operating
| system software vendors make. Is the open source operating system
| business truly viable over the long term?
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| Fleury: Red Hat's revenues on the Linux side is in the hundreds of
| millions. There is money to be made... it's not the same as Microsoft
| makes on its installed base but there's money to be made.
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