"Set to surpass"? Market value is based on stock price, and stock price is, by definition, the point at which there is as much demand for buying a stock as for

"Set to surpass"? Market value is based on stock price, and stock price is, by definition, the point at which there is as much demand for buying a stock as for selling it. So it sounds like Cnet doesn't have an actual story until Red Hat goes up, or Sun goes down. They're just pushing a fairly cheesy, meaningless non-story to get in ahead of whoever is planning on writing the slightly less meaningless non-story about when Red Hat's market cap does surpass Sun's.