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.
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| 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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