internetnews.com: Red Hat Looks Beyond Linux

“Red Hat plotted a new course for its future Tuesday as it
declared plans to develop a full open-source architecture that
integrates platform, infrastructure and management
technologies.

“The plan is a new direction for the company, which until now
has focused primarily on delivering an enterprise-ready version of
the Linux operating system. Now Red Hat said it has listened to the
community, technology round-tables and customers, leading it to
commit to developing a standards-based open source infrastructure
that focuses on management and applications support across multiple
hardware environments.

“Red Hat stressed that the architecture will be modular, giving
Independent Software Vendors (ISVs), Independent Hardware Vendors
(IHVs) and open source communities an opportunity to participate
and collaborate in the creation of the architecture, while
minimizing the potential for vendor lock-in…”

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