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[News] Red Hat Becomes More Attractive After Oracle-Bea Deal

  • Subject: [News] Red Hat Becomes More Attractive After Oracle-Bea Deal
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 08:07:06 +0000
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
Oracle-BEA deal expands lock-in strategy, offers new risks and opportunities
for Red Hat

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| Through its acquisition binge, it seems as if Oracle is trying to crush any 
| and all prospects for emerging open source applications as well as those of 
| proprietary rivals. Red Hat and open source companies should turn up the 
| volume on this stratey and target nervous customers who may be tiring of the 
| Redwood City, Calif. company’s power play.    
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=1892

Red Hat at the crossroads

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| Red Hat prospered because it stayed close to the ground, identifying closely 
| with the rapidly growing user and developer communities. Unlike SuSE and 
| Caldera, the other "commercial" Linux distributions of the time, Red Hat CDs 
| didn't contain proprietary installers and were always freely downloadable. 
| Every feature developed by Red Hat was distributed under the GPL. During the 
| mid 90s Red Hat won countless awards from PC magazines. The raising of Red 
| Hat's profile and brand meant that, by the time Linux began to take off in 
| commercial environments at the end of the decade, Red Hat was perfectly  
| positioned to take advantage, and become the Linux company - a position that 
| offended many in the Linux community but had been won through application and 
| inspiration.         
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http://www.itpro.co.uk/servers/features/155277/red-hat-at-the-crossroads.html


Related:

Red Hat CEO Targets Oracle, Microsoft

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| Red Hat Inc. CEO Jim Whitehurst said Friday -- his fourth day on the job -- 
| that he's angling for a showdown with two tech titans in what he describes as 
| a struggle to protect information sharing in software development.  
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http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/080104/red_hat_whitehurst.html?.v=1


Red Hat Pits Itself Against VMware

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| Red Hat’s new goal is to underpin 50% of the world’s servers by 2015.
|                                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
|
| And since virtualization is projected to take over the world by then that’s a 
| lot of Xen virtualization – and there’s no extra cost in it like there is 
| with VMware since it’s bundled with RHEL. (Red Hat’s telling people they’ll 
| save $20,000-$30,000 a server.)    
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http://www.clientservernews.com/

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