"The rumors just won't quit. Last week at LinuxWorld, rumors were that Oracle would buy Red Hat; or, it would launch its own Linux distro. Neither happened, but did that stop the rumor mill? Nope.
"This week, as my eWEEK buddy Lisa Vaas describes, a Sun third-party PR firm representative asked the rhetorical question: 'Is it possible that Red Hat is quietly readying itself for acquisition by Oracle?' The memo went on to badmouth Red Hat.
"Since then, Sun has quietly--but very firmly--disowned that memo..."
