Red Hat-JBoss something of a surprise

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Rather than joining the Big Boy party, they are trying to crash it

I agree it's a bold move, and in the face of Oracle and IBM.

Oracle has been a big supporter of Red Hat, including standardizing on a derrivative Red Flag/Asianux instead of TurboLinux in China, as well as making Red Hat their standard Linux platform everywhere else.

IBM has worked literally side by side with Red Hat in strengthening the Linux kernel, as well as making them the preferred Linux vendor on their Linux servers.

But now Red Hat is already apparently willing to take on IBM and Oracle head to head for the whole shebang. IBM and Oracle will have to make the next moves. Will either release a Linux distro of their own?

Doubtful, they'll continue to support many versions of Linux including Red Hat, and try to sell support for them all. The hardest thing will be trying to come to grips with the fact that open source of all types is eating through the profits of everyone, except Microsoft, who is now even selling support for Linux itself. My my have things certainly changed, in a hurry.

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