Red Hat heads into the clouds, not into an acquisition

Aug 26, 2010, 12:35 (0 Talkback[s])
(Other stories by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols)

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"Get over it people. Red Hat is not getting acquired anytime soon. I know, I know, you'd heard all the rumors. Here's the truth as I see it: If Red Hat gets acquired anytime soon, I'll eat my fedora. It's not happening.

"What is happening, as Paul Cormier, EVP of Red Hat, announced this morning is that Red Hat spelled out more about its cloud strategy. Sorry, I know that's not a tenth as exciting as an acquisition, but it's just not in the works right now.

"What is in the works is that Red Hat has spelled out more about its Red Hat Cloud Foundations. Red Hat's plan is to provide companies with an infrastructure "capable of delivering an open source, flexible cloud stack, incorporating operating system, middleware and virtualization."

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