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Talkback: JBoss more than Red Hat can chew?

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Apr 17, 20061 min

Open Enterprise’s Neil McAllister poses an interesting scenario for Red Hat with its JBoss buy.

He writes: Apparently JBoss by itself isn’t a sufficiently attractive acquisition target for Oracle. But maybe an overextended and struggling Red Hat battered by heated competition with giant vendors that are out of its league — with not just a premier Linux distribution in its portfolio but all of JBoss’ technologies, as well — is.

Reports today say Oracle is eyeing its own Linux distro.

Has Red Hat bitten off more than it can chew, putting it on Oracle’s menu? Talk back to us below.

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Mike Barton started out in online slinging HTML for CNET.com in the late 1990s and began his editorial career at New Media magazine shortly thereafter. In his early days, he was an editor at Ziff-Davis's PC Computing and ZDNet.com before heading Down Under, where he produced and edited the business and technology sections of The Sydney Morning Herald online. After returning to the States in 2006, he has worked for IDG's Infoworld, PCWorld, Computerworld, and CSO Online. He currently edits and produces WIRED.com's Innovation Insights, and is a contributing editor at ITworld.

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