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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