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Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> Telecommunications ISVs Choose Red Hat
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>| Hundreds of telecommunications software providers already support
>| Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and this new telecommunications ISV
>| milestone is further evidence of Red Hat's success in targeting
>| application providers in industry verticals where open source
>| adoption is happening rapidly.
> `----
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> http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/061101/20061101005195.html?.v=1
>
> A few days ago:
>
> S&P Leaves Rating on Red Hat Unchanged
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
>| S&P said it would leave a "B+" and "Stable" rating on Red Hat,
>| which had $570 million in debt as of Aug. 30, as the company has
>| "adequate liquidity to absorb the buyback."
> `----
>
> http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/061030/red_hat_rating.html?.v=1
It's certainly growing rapidly, and such growth is typically quite
expensive. Unlike some companies in the past, Red Hat are not pushing
for a lock-in approach, although their manipulation of open-source
upstream packages has irritated many people.
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| Mark Kent -- mark at ellandroad dot demon dot co dot uk |
You can't evaluate a man by logic alone.
-- McCoy, "I, Mudd", stardate 4513.3
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