InformationWeek: How Red Hat Lost Friends And Gained New Enemies
Nov 13, 2006, 19:00 (2 Talkback[s])
"Red Hat, once the little company that could, for years could do
no wrong. It rode the rising popularity of Linux to become a $280
million-a-year company with a market cap as high as $6 billion,
claiming 80% of the market for Linux-based enterprise servers.
Other Linux-friendly vendors loved Red Hat, since it gave them and
their customers a viable alternative to Windows. Even Microsoft,
while openly anti-Linux, didn't treat Red Hat as too much of a
threat.
"But Red Hat's success is starting to breed envy and unease, and
now partners and competitors alike--particularly Oracle, Microsoft,
and Novell--are trying to wipe the grin off the commercial face of
Linux..."
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