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

Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> Oracle-BEA deal expands lock-in strategy, offers new risks and opportunities
> for Red Hat
> 
> ,----[ Quote ]
>| 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.    
> `----
> 
> http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=1892

Oracle is under massive threat from mysql and postgrsql which are
trouncing Oracle at the lower and mid-ends of the market.  

> 
> Red Hat at the crossroads
> 
> ,----[ Quote ]
>| 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.         
> `----
> 
> http://www.itpro.co.uk/servers/features/155277/red-hat-at-the-crossroads.html
> 
> 
> Related:
> 
> Red Hat CEO Targets Oracle, Microsoft
> 
> ,----[ Quote ]
>| 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.  
> `----
> 
> http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/080104/red_hat_whitehurst.html?.v=1
> 
> 
> Red Hat Pits Itself Against VMware
> 
> ,----[ Quote ]
>| 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.)    
> `----
> 
> http://www.clientservernews.com/


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