[NTLUG:Discuss] Crazy world of acquisitions lately

[Chris Cox]

Long time enterprise storage company Sistina... notably
the creator of LVM used inside of linux distributions...
primarily SUSE over the past several years.. has been
acquired by RedHat, who just recently saw the value
in LVM (weird).

My guess is that RH saw the writing on the wall and
decided to use the massive (and I mean massive...)
funds they have via stock to make a hedge acquisition
against Novell/SUSE (since SUSE has been a long
time supporter of LVM while RH was twiddling
their thumbs).

Very, very interesting.  My guess is that Redhat
will make sure that LVM and GFS integrate primarily
(and effectively only) with RH in the future...
similar to Novell's support of NDS favoring
SUSE (aka Novell Linux).

If you're a SUSE fan (which I guess I still am),
the good news is that EVMS (IBM) is better than LVM
and provides compatability with existing LVM1 and I
think even LVM2.  Noting the $50million dollar tie
between IBM and Novell/SUSE... could it be that
EVMS is in the future of SUSE??  I'm pretty sure that
IBM liked some of GFS... so I'm not sure what will
happen there... certainly logical volumes are
important, but things like GFS are the wave of
the future.

Linux growing pains galore!!  Looks like RH has
finally awaken from their slumber though.... nice
move RH!

Debian anyone?