[NTLUG:Discuss] Crazy world of acquisitions lately

[Vaidya, Harshal (Cognizant)]

This reminds me that VMWare is taken over by Storage giant EMC, indeed a very strategic move by EMC. 
I cant remember the site i read that on ,maybe it was Zdnetindia, not so  sure though. But I'll post the link as soon as I get it.

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	From: Justin M. Forbes [mailto:iostream at comcast.net] 
	Sent: Fri 19/12/2003 05:10 
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	Subject: Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] Crazy world of acquisitions lately
	
	


	Let me start by saying that I have been given no insight into this (2.6
	was much more news with the Fedora crew today than LVM), but volume
	management has been included in RH for a while, even if only as an
	afterthought.  I dont know that I would see the value in the purchase
	for Red Hat.  They certainly are not the type to try to edge anyone out,
	so I could easily see Suseware continuing with their lvm support.
	Remember IBM has also had a bit to do with Red Hat, and I would see IBM
	being more interested in at least 2 strong players in the Linux market
	to keep innovation up, and IBM under less pressure.  If there is only
	one enterprise Linux Vendor, they would have a lot more power to "call
	the shots" when dealing with a hardware vendor/service company like IBM
	who is highly dependent on Linux based revenue.
	
	Justin
	
	On Thu, 2003-12-18 at 16:06, Chris Cox wrote:
	
	> 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).
	>
	
	Let me start by saying that I have been given no insight into this (2.6
	was much more news with the Fedora crew today than LVM), but volume
	management has been included in RH for a while, even if only as an
	afterthought.  I don't know that I would see the value in the purchase
	for Red Hat.  They certainly are not the type to try to edge anyone out,
	so I could easily see "Suseware" continuing with their lvm support.
	Remember IBM has also had a bit to do with Red Hat, and I would see IBM
	being more interested in at least 2 strong players in the Linux market
	to keep innovation up, and IBM under less pressure.  If there is only
	one enterprise Linux Vendor, they would have a lot more power to "call
	the shots" when dealing with a hardware vendor/service company like IBM
	who is highly dependent on Linux based revenue.  Novell also announced
	support for Red Hat on its own products.
	
	Justin
	
	
	
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