[ale] AOL in talks to buy RedHat!!!

Denny Chambers dchambers at snapserver.com
Mon Jan 21 13:49:11 EST 2002


Let's not forget some of Redhat's projects that they support, ie GNOME.
These can be effected/manipulated by a Redhat buy out.

"Bao C. Ha" wrote:
> 
> Hi James,
> 
> > If AOL aquires RedHat, it will be because they want a
> > specific piece of
> > RedHat. I would almost put money on the following:
> > 1. RedHat Network technology
> > 2. Cygwin
> > 3. The embedded RedHat stuff is where I would put twice the $$ of the
> > other 2 combined.
> 
> I would take exception of #3.  The Cygwin stuff includes
> expertises in the tools chain: Gcc/glibc, which are used by
> all Linux-based embedded development.  RedHat does have a
> lot of competition on #3, but nobody can come close to #2.
> In my mind, their core is #2 with #3 as just an extension
> of Cygwin.
> 
> Other than that, rpm is sucky.  Go Debian!
> 
> Bao
> 
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