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Yahoo!/Investor’s Business Daily: Red Hat, Novell Linux’s Hatfields, McCoys

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Sep 8, 2004

“So much for peace, love and Linux.

“The hippy ethic championed in early ads for the Linux operating
system is giving way to good old competitive rancor as Red Hat and
Novell launch warring campaigns.

“The two firms are rolling out new application servers–part of
a category of software called middleware that binds together
business systems. Red Hat and Novell see the category as the next
step in expanding their reach…”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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