Who Needs an Open-Source Strategy? You Do | Linux Today

Who Needs an Open-Source Strategy? You Do

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Matt Asay
Oct 14, 2008

“Is Red Hat one of them?
I hope not, but there are plenty of good reasons for Oracle to be
looking at acquiring an open-source company like Red Hat, or to be
contributing significantly to various open-source projects.
Open-source companies like Pentaho, Digium, and others should be
attractive buys and open-source projects should be compelling
strategies right now, for a few different reasons…”

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