Redhat taking a beating - stock opportunity here?

[Dave Cramer]

On 27-Oct-06, at 12:22 PM, Evan Leibovitch wrote:

> Ansar Mohammed wrote:
>> IF Oracle buys RedHat,
> Read the announcements. Oracle has no plans (at this time) to do  
> so; IMO
> it never did (outside of a few mumbled trial balloons). I would even
> argue that Oracle has little to benefit from such a purchase, and that
> its current strategy is smarter.
>
>> http://www.redhat.com/promo/unfakeable/
>>
> I see FUD in that Q&A. Red Hat is accusing Oracle of wanting to  
> fork Red
> Hat's software. If that happens it's not Red Hat's software anymore,
> it's effectively a separate distribution, and this is totally contrary
> to what Oracle is claiming to do.
>
> Given that Red Hat's bread-and-butter business is the prime target of
> Oracle's move -- and that now Red Hat and Oracle will likely be  
> hardcore
> competition to each other -- I would hardly expect RH analysis of the
> move to be unbiased.
This is an interesting problem. One which is modeled in biology.  
Oracle is essentially a virus living off another organism redhat. If  
it manages to kill the host organism then how does it survive ?

Dave
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