Red Hat: Customers Not Using Oracle as Bargaining Chip
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| According to Rangan, Szulik said Red Hat is seeing "limited impact"
| from the new Linux offerings from Oracle and Microsoft/Novell.
| "Customers are not using ORCL's offering as a bargaining tool, as
| feared by the Street," Rangan writes, apparently paraphrasing Szulik.
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http://biz.yahoo.com/seekingalpha/070215/27140_id.html?.v=1
Some of the world's largest software makers took a hit at a much smaller
Linux company. And they failed.
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Tech stocks open higher; Red Hat boosted by Wall St. upgrade
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| Software maker Red Hat Inc. rose 2% Tuesday, boosted by an analyst
| upgrade, as the broader technology sector advanced in early trading.
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Red Hat: Little Impact From New Linux Rivals
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| Another positive note on Red Hat today, this time from Jefferies &
| Co.'s Katherine Egbert, who raised her rating on the stock to Buy
| from Hold, and increased her price target on the stock to
| $30 from $21.
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http://biz.yahoo.com/seekingalpha/070213/26912_id.html?.v=1
Red Hat: Management 'Holding the Line' on Linux Pricing and Discounts
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| Red Hat is "holding the line" on pricing and discounts for Linux
| despite the new competition from Oracle and an alliance between
| Microsoft and Novell, according to UBS analyst Heather Bellini.
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| [...]
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| "...She says that the Microsoft/Novell alliance ?has not really changed the
| competitive dynamics in the Linux market."
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Analyst: March update should help Red Hat
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| Stimson considers the competition from Oracle and Microsoft/Novell
| "a nonevent so far" as he's seen little evidence that Oracle is
| winning support business away from Red Hat.
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The bottom line on Novell-Microsoft may be RedHat stock surge
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| * Oracle -- Down 3.56%
| * Microsoft -- Up 2.7%.
| * Novell -- Up 8.13%
| * RedHat -- Up 36.82%
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=930
Red Hat profit tops Wall Street view, shares soar
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| "Open-source is not going away and Red Hat is the leader," Chowdhry
| said in a telephone interview. "Oracle is a nonevent when
| it comes to open source."
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