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Who would acquire Red Hat? Oracle? I shudder to think of what would happen to all of Red Hat's IP under Oracle's control ....
by jasonjayr 8y ago
Who would acquire Red Hat?
Oracle? I shudder to think of what would happen to all of Red Hat's IP under Oracle's control ....
- yellowapple 8y agoDeath. That's what would happen. See also: Sun Microsystems
- yuhong 8y agoMentioned that in the essay as well BTW.
- pjmlp 8y agoYeah, because IBM would have been so much better.
- johnvanommen 8y agoI could see Microsoft acquiring Red Hat. Nearly every company that I've worked for purchases MSFT licenses and RedHat licenses. If MSFT acquired them, it would allow them to offer either option in the enterprise. Also, Microsoft's cash cow isn't Windows, it's Office and Outlook. So an acquisition of Red Hat might give them an opportunity to make inroads into Linux with those products. Last but not least, there's plenty of Linux running on Azure, a RedHat acquisition could play into that strategy.