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Linux-Watch: Look Out, World, Here Comes Red Hat

Written By
SJV
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
Apr 11, 2006

[ Thanks to Steven J.
Vaughan-Nichols
for this link. ]

“Red Hat acquiring JBoss is big news for the open-source world.
It may be even bigger news for the entire software world,
though.

“Red Hat has long been the dominant Linux distributor. Its
switch from a retail-box end-user Linux to a subscription-based
business distribution made it no friends in the Linux community,
but Red Hat’s bottom line showed that it’s path was a rip-roaring
business success…”

Complete
Story

SJV

Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols

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